re: Multicast OS Deployments - At Last (and in-the-box with Windows Server 2008)

Andy Coleman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:34:21 GMT

Good news. Although personally I am more looking forward to what we'll get from Scriptlogic. Simply because I've been using their Desktop Authority Image Center http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/desktopauthority/imagecenter/ for about half a year and enjoy its capabilities. The multicast deployments feature made me sure I needed something to manage deployments in our company. In fact there sure was no news about how Windows Longhorn Server 2008 will be named as it was far earlier then May, 17 when we deployed the first set of XP images to our remote office. We'd just opened the new office on the west then and I simply got extremely tired about questions from that side. We were discussing deployments with admins from that were working in the new office so that our chats started to take up a lot of time. We were waffling about user-targeted image deployments, how to make them hardware independent, how to switch between HALs and how to deliver appropriated drivers. That all pressed on us as we needed to maintain several different images of the same OS that we were using for deployment services. You know it yourself how multiple indigested deployments can harm the network performance and stability. Desktop Authority already included bandwidth control and allowed compress them. What I love there specifically, is the ability to moun image and edit it's contents directly from within the explorer. No hassle with additional command line utilities, etc.

That doesn't mean though that I'm not waiting for Windows Server, though. I am looking forward to using it in a virtualization role. We already decided that we need at least one such server for each office. As far as I know, the virtualization component will be available within 180 days after Windows Server 2008 is released to manufacturing. I am a bit disappointed with the latest news about the decision to shift release date from the Q4 of 2007 to the first quarter of the next year. On the other had this will allow them to fix the glitches as even the June CTP had problems with installing GPMC feature.

Multicasting in Server 2008

The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:11:21 GMT

Kevin is right, this has already been talked about , but he does a nice job of explaining the two types

re: Multicast OS Deployments - At Last (and in-the-box with Windows Server 2008)

Kurt Roggen [BE] — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:03:25 GMT

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