Please Recommend a good 'clone / ghost' type software

[IhateComedians]

I am in charge of setting up 14 new Gateway PC?s on our NT 4.0 Domain. All the new PC?s will come with Win XP Pro and MS works 2002. Can anyone recommend a good ghost type software or application that will enable me to setup each PC with identical software, and Printer setups? The software I need to install on all 14 is Lotus Notes 5, MS Office Pro 2000 and 1-3 network printers.

I REALLY don?t want to have to do 14 times the amount of work, to prep each machine for the network, if a good application exists that can clone, or ghost one basic configuration for all the new PC?s.

Anyone have any ideas?

Is there software I can load onto our NT servers that will automatically install the new configuration for all the new client PC?s? Anyone who can help me out or suggest something, I?d greatly appreciate the help.

 

[SleepyGuy]

Go either Norton Ghost or DriveImage Pro.

We use DriveImage Pro 4 here for office use and disaster recovery (we like it because the bootdisk can burn directly to the burner. Things to remember (timesavers)

1. all pcs must be identical (sounds like a stupid question but even some hardware revisions use diffent drivers - major headache)
2. admin passwords should be "blank" before cloning
3. setup all printers, drivers, patches, etc... BUT do not authenicate to the domain! SID must be unique
4. we just use the standalone disk and a burned copy of the image to deploy
5. either use MS sid utility or we like to use sisinternals sid changer (free) and very easy to use

For disaster recovery test I had to deploy 10 PCs (WinNT, Office 97). With driveimage pro 4 i did the job in under 3 hours. hope this helps.