I’m currently working on a project involved in deploying Windows 7 (configured to our needs) to a lot of netbooks. For that I’m planning to use Acronis Snap Deploy and to push images through ethernet. I’m currently having issues with DHCP service though, because I’m using Windows 7 Ultimate on my PC (main). I tried to use programs which run DHCP services, but they all failed for some reason.
The thing is complicated with the fact, that my PC belongs to our corporate network with our our Domain and DHCP server – I connect to the network through WiFi.
I plan to use PCs Ethernet to create my own “private netbook network” 🙂 I have to turn off my Wireless so that my PCs DHCP won’t conflict with corporate’s.
So my questions are:
1) If issue IS REALLY in DHCP programs, would I able to run Windows 2003 Server from Vmware Workstation, so that it would issue IP Addresses to the netbooks?
2) If you know better ways of deploying images to multiple PCs, can you advice me on that?
Thanks!
What network will netbooks be plugged in? You are talking about “private netbook network”. Does it mean that all the netbooks are plugged in a network with only your PC and netbooks?
If so, you should install a DHCP server on your PC and enjoy. Netbooks get IP from your PC, no one knows about corporate network.