Thread: Automated and Remote installation

In case you find yourself in the unenviable position of installing NOS onto several servers, you can use a few tricks to streamline the process:

• Automated setup lets you create a setup script that provides answers to all questions asked by the installation program. After you created the script, you can start the automated setup, leave, and come back when the installation is finished. Creating the setup script is a bit of work, so automated setup makes sense only if you have more then a few server to install.



• Microsoft has a feature called Remote Installation Servers (RIS) that lets you install windows 2000 server or window server 2003 from a remote network location without even going to the server computer. RIS is tricky to setup, however, so it's really significance if you have a lot of servers on which to install operating system.