Hi All,
Our Windows team predominantly use Ghost to deploy default desktop images. They have been toying with migrating across and using PING (http://ping.windowsdream.com/) instead for a variety of reasons, mostly to do with the general nastiness of getting newer hardware to play with the DOS based Ghost environment.
After having a quick look at PING (not used it myself as of yet), I was wondering if I could re-purpose parts of the Cobbler infrastructure (PXE management, etc), so that it can use PING as a means of creating a Windows provisioning framework for our default images.
Obviously this isn't quite the same as kickstart and cobbler, (due to the need to image a golden-image system first), but I presume it'll work OK (with the caveats of using images). After reviewing the System Retirement with PXE and DBAN article on the wiki, it should be doable???
Does this all sound sensible??? I think so, but as I haven't done much Windows deployments for a few years, its all a bit hazy in my mind.
Last but not least, has anyone done this before and if so any tips/tricks to getting it going or was it all straight forward enough??? Otherwise I'll make a stab at it, see what happens and document any success.
Thanks
Dan
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