Deployment

Ive spent today formatting all my 3 machines and reinstall xp with sp2.

And now the time has come for me to install this software

Office XP Pro
Publisher XP
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Nero 6
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
Adobe Photoshop 7

Plus other bits of stuff.

is there any i can install this software just once so it is deployed to all
machines, i am on a network and i have a four machine which i use as my
server where installation files, and backups are done the server machine
also have XP Pro SP2.

TIA

Andy

And another thing when i have created all user accounts, rather than logon
and set there homepage to google and, set there screensaver and desktop
appearance can i do this just once

"Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Ive spent today formatting all my 3 machines and reinstall xp with sp2.
>
> And now the time has come for me to install this software
>
> Office XP Pro
> Publisher XP
> Adobe Acrobat Reader
> Nero 6
> Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
> Adobe Photoshop 7
>
> Plus other bits of stuff.
>
> is there any i can install this software just once so it is deployed to
all
> machines, i am on a network and i have a four machine which i use as my
> server where installation files, and backups are done the server machine
> also have XP Pro SP2.
>
> TIA
>
> Andy
>
>

I think it should all be possible, but you will have to do a major
deployment build, and burn your own CDs. A lot of work.
One machine will need to be set up, and then you will have to base the
CDs on that, and install on the other 2, so the time spent installing
windows may have been wasted, because you'll prolly have to do it again
with the deployment.
Look in the MS knowledge base at http://support.microsoft.com
G

"Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> And another thing when i have created all user accounts, rather than
> logon
> and set there homepage to google and, set there screensaver and
> desktop
> appearance can i do this just once
>
> "Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:8LR9d.464$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Ive spent today formatting all my 3 machines and reinstall xp with
>> sp2.
>>
>> And now the time has come for me to install this software
>>
>> Office XP Pro
>> Publisher XP
>> Adobe Acrobat Reader
>> Nero 6
>> Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
>> Adobe Photoshop 7
>>
>> Plus other bits of stuff.
>>
>> is there any i can install this software just once so it is deployed
>> to
> all
>> machines, i am on a network and i have a four machine which i use as
>> my
>> server where installation files, and backups are done the server
>> machine
>> also have XP Pro SP2.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>
>

"Andy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:8LR9d.464$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ive spent today formatting all my 3 machines and reinstall xp with sp2.
>
> And now the time has come for me to install this software
>
> Office XP Pro
> Publisher XP
> Adobe Acrobat Reader
> Nero 6
> Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
> Adobe Photoshop 7
>
> Plus other bits of stuff.
>
> is there any i can install this software just once so it is deployed to
all
> machines, i am on a network and i have a four machine which i use as my
> server where installation files, and backups are done the server machine
> also have XP Pro SP2.
>

You'd need a proper server - 2000 server or 2003. Then you could do an
install on one pc and set it all up, build it into an image and distribute
it automatically to the other PC's by simply booting them from their network
cards. Bit involved though, and XP won't do it.

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Wed, 20 Oct
2004 22:30:52 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.comp.home-networking, yawatina tan reek esk "James" <(E-Mail Removed)>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:

>You'd need a proper server - 2000 server or 2003. Then you could do an
>install on one pc and set it all up, build it into an image and distribute
>it automatically to the other PC's by simply booting them from their network
>cards. Bit involved though, and XP won't do it.

It will if you use PSExec (from Sysinternals) and the command line, quiet
install of each software package.

deKay
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"deKay" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Wed, 20
Oct
> 2004 22:30:52 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.comp.home-networking, yawatina tan reek esk "James"
<(E-Mail Removed)>
> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
> >You'd need a proper server - 2000 server or 2003. Then you could do an
> >install on one pc and set it all up, build it into an image and
distribute
> >it automatically to the other PC's by simply booting them from their
network
> >cards. Bit involved though, and XP won't do it.
>
> It will if you use PSExec (from Sysinternals) and the command line, quiet
> install of each software package.
>

Cheers, one to look at.
James