Massive Upgrade to Windows XP

cpkilier

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Sep 15, 2003
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Okay, I'm looking for quite a bit of help here! I need to upgrade around 600 computers in our organization from Windows 2K to Windows XP Pro. I would like to do this all via unattended install. All of the tutorials I have read on the internet and what not all cover how to make an answer file if you are doing a fresh install, I only want to do an upgrade and want it to grab the files from a network share and leave the computer names and such unchanged. Has anyone attempted this before and been successful, or can anyone point me in the direction of some help? Thanks for any help in advance. Hope there aren't too many flames as this is my first post...
 

dbwillis

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Mar 19, 2001
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I dont know if its faster to put a new image (also pulled from the server) onto the PC verses updating each 2000 OS to XP while pulling the files off the network.

Image takes 20-30 min to download here at work and we fill out a .CSV file with computername, domain, username and stuff and it fills that in automatically after the image loads...

Im sure others will chime in.
Any reason against a new image on 600 PC's?
 

SpeedFreak03

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I'm not positve about how to do it, but why would you want to? Win2K is the same as XP, except for the eye-candy, wizards, HyperThreading support (for Pentium4 CPUs that support it), and it comes with more device drivers! So if the decision isn't final, I would recommend just staying with 2K.