I'll be going to Redmond next week so I can definitely get the answer then but here is the situation.
We will be deploying SP2, eventually, to about 15k workstations, managed by SMS 2003. What I need to do is find out how to deploy with the new firewall disabled. I have found the answers in the answer file but I don't have alot of experience personally with unattended deployments and answer files. You can't use /unattend or /u with the update.exe in SP2, only passive or quiet. /passive works but is there a way to do the install and reference the answer file unattend.txt? The documentation certainly says there is but references a help file that doesn't yet exist so I had no reference. Clearly I am in over my head so any help, even very basic instruction would not be insulting. The deal in a nutshell is this, I can create or edit a txt file with parameters like [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0 but what I need to know is how to I point to that text file with a switch after the executable, update.exe in this case. Any guidance is muy appreciated and if nobody knows, I'll post after I get back from Seattle. Thanks.
We will be deploying SP2, eventually, to about 15k workstations, managed by SMS 2003. What I need to do is find out how to deploy with the new firewall disabled. I have found the answers in the answer file but I don't have alot of experience personally with unattended deployments and answer files. You can't use /unattend or /u with the update.exe in SP2, only passive or quiet. /passive works but is there a way to do the install and reference the answer file unattend.txt? The documentation certainly says there is but references a help file that doesn't yet exist so I had no reference. Clearly I am in over my head so any help, even very basic instruction would not be insulting. The deal in a nutshell is this, I can create or edit a txt file with parameters like [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0 but what I need to know is how to I point to that text file with a switch after the executable, update.exe in this case. Any guidance is muy appreciated and if nobody knows, I'll post after I get back from Seattle. Thanks.
