Looking for advice for larger scale imaging software

[Tsaico]

I am now responsible for looking over a few computer labs. At the moment, there are about 170 or so workstations that I would like to reload with a fresh installation of Windows, Office, the software needed for the classes, etc.

I don't really have that much experience with doing a load like this on such a large scale. Is there some software that can be loaded over a network to load a image from a central server. Do you guys have any better ideas on how I can approach this?

 

[loup garou]

Acronis Snap Deploy is what we use. Reasonable pricing, easy to use, universal image option (load standard image to any hardware -- haven't tried it but like that the option is there), very fast multicast deploy via builtin PXE server.