Re: How to automate ASR restore process

Can any one help me please...........


With kind Regards
Rayees.

"Rayees" <rayees@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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HI Mike, let me explain where I got stuck

At present I'm taking ASR backup of my servers manually, as you aware
while creating ASR I also create floppy for each server and maintain those
floppies separately. When there is a need to restore ASR, I use the
floppy which I created during backup and restore the server by pointing to
the .bkf file which I created during backup. It works fine no problem in
this.

Now the issue is, I have few hundred servers. Doing the above mentioned
steps manually is a difficult task for me. Hence I thought of automating
the "Restore" process. I went through lot of microsoft article and I
happen to read a Microsoft article by name "How ASR Works" where in this
document I read these lines "You normally access the ASR state file
(Asr.sif) through a local floppy disk drive. If the computer does not have
a floppy disk drive, or you want to perform an ASR restore over a network
or remotely, you can use a Remote Installation Services (RIS) server to
fully automate the ASR process."

In my environment I already have Windows Deployment Services (WDS) (WDS is
a upgrade of RIS). So I would like to know how make use of RIS to
automate ASR.

Hope I clarified my point

Regards
Rayees


"Mike Luo [MSFT]" <v-miluo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

Thank you for using newsgroup!

I didn't completely understand the mean "how to make use of RIS/WDS to
automate the restore process of ASR". Could you explain me for more
detail?

Thanks & Regards,

Mike Luo

Microsoft Online Partner Support
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