rogp

I have a small (50) and gradual deployment of Windows 2000 Pro to manage. I have looked at Norton Ghost but wondered if there are any alternatives that have worked well for you?

Thanks in advance.

Roger

Monkeh

We use Powerquest DriveImage, and it is execllent it creates and restore's to mapped drives...

http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/

snowcrash

thumbs up for ghost

zhastaph

Agreed, Ghost, defo.

Can do over a TCP/IP link, but is also capable of booting from USB/Firewire HDD's such as Iomega's offering.

rogp

Isn't Ghost a little reluctant to do the SID mods though?

zhastaph

I believe that later versions of Ghost (2002/2003) have the option to regenerate a new SID, see Norton's tech support for details on this.

Failing that, Microsoft provide a utilty, SysPrep that can be run after deployment to also do this.

R1916v

we use imagecast by phoenix technologies.

snowcrash

newer versions of ghost can change sid's..

or you can use something like "new sid" @ http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/newsid.shtml

rogp

Thanks to everyone for the input.

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

ghost all the way, just sysprep the image before taking the ghost image - simple

boomer

Roger,

drop me an e-mail, as per profile, if you are still looking for other options.

I work for a small company that might have an alternative solution to your problem - but i don't want the "commercial advertising police" to jump on me

mb