Re: Using RIS and /connectcomputer on a SBS server
From: Frederic Grosdaillon (freddyboy1_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/30/04
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Date: 30 Nov 2004 05:50:58 -0800
First of all Steve, thank you VERY MUCH for your time. You seem to be
really good at what you do, and I understand why you are a MVP....
With a capital V.
The problem I have without using the wizard, is that i cannot control
some computer settings if i dont use it. If you select in Server
Management console, Client computers, View computer settings, do you
have any computers listed there ? That's what is important to me, to
control the features that are listed there and fo those features to be
fonctionning when the computer joins the domain. If I dont use the
wizard, I cannot have this "special feature" that only the SBS wizard
seems to be able to do.
"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@picamar.co.uk> wrote in message news:<xn0dqcnwn2k04q005@msnews.microsoft.com>...
> Frederic Grosdaillon wrote:
>
> > I cannot create a computer account with the SBS wizard and
> > entering the GUID of the computer (the wizard as no entry for the
> > GUID). To enter a GUID, I have to manually add a computer account
> > using, and even if I create it in the same OU as my SBSComputers, it
> > is still different then those created by the wizard (in Server
> > Management console, Client computers, View computer settings, the
> > computer is not listed there.)
>
> I wasn't suggesting creating the computer accounts with the SBS wizard.
> You would have to create them using normal Windows methods in order to
> set the GUID.
>
> Computer accounts created this way (or directly via RIS or the XP
> Networking Wizard) should definitely show up under the SBS Manage
> Computers (and they don't need to be in the SBSComputers OU) - you may
> have to reload the Server Management console if the accounts were added
> after it was started, since the Manage Computers list is based on an
> LDAP query.
>
> Indeed, I've added two new PCs to a customer's network today using the
> XP Networking Wizard, and apart from having to move the accounts into
> the right OU, there was no work on the server at all. If it weren't for
> the additional GPOs I assign based on the OU, I'd have left the
> machines in the default Computers container.
>
> > I configured my RIS server to automatically put in in the correct OE
> > (SBSComputers)
> >
> > I think that RIS is a really good product, and I'm so disapointed that
> > IT's don't use it that much. If you just take the time to learn the
> > product, you can do magic with it. We just ship the new computers to
> > the client, and they install Windows themselves ! If we get a dead
> > hard drive, just pop a new on in, and RIS takes care of the rest !
> > They get 10 pcs stolen, I reinstall 10 Windows in 30 minutes ! Just
> > need to keep the drivers up to date on RIS, and you can install it on
> > any piece of hardware! No need to make a fresh image for your Ghost or
> > whatever image !
>
> I like RIS too. The only drawback I've found is that integrating
> 3rd-party nic drivers is a PITA.
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