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Remote Installation Services
Remote Installation Services (RIS) enables you to perform a clean installation of Windows XP Professional, or a clean installation of any version of Windows 2000 except Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Datacenter Server, on supported computers throughout your organization. You can simultaneously deploy the operating system on multiple clients from one or more remote locations.
Important
To deploy Windows XP images from Windows 2000 RIS Servers, you must install the Windows 2000 Remote Installation Services update. For more information about the Windows 2000 Remote Installation Services update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base link on the Web Resources page at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/webresources. Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base using the keywords Risetup.exe, RIS Servers, and Windows XP Images.
System administrators can use RIS to create and store one or more images of a supported operating system on a RIS Server. A RIS image can then be downloaded over a network connection by a client computer that supports the Pre-Boot eXecution Environment (PXE). You can completely automate the installation of the downloaded RIS image or you can require users to provide input by typing a computer name or an administrator password, for example.
To use Remote Installation Services, Windows 2000 Server must be deployed with Active Directory configured. Then, you can deploy Windows XP Professional by using the Pre-Boot eXecution Environment (PXE) technology that enables computers to boot from their network adapters. Administrators working with a RIS server can make a preconfigured image of Windows XP Professional available for installation on a client computer.
For computers that do not support Pre-Boot eXecution Environment (PXE) technology, Remote Installation Services includes a tool called the Remote Boot Floppy Generator (RBFG.exe) that you can use to create a remote boot disk to use with RIS. You can use the RIS remote boot disk with supported network adapters that comply with the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) specification.
When to Use Remote Installation Services
Use Remote Installation Services (RIS) on desktop computers that are newly added to a network or on which you want to perform a clean installation of the operating system. Use RIS when you want to standardize a Windows XP Professional configuration on new desktop computers or on computers with an existing operating system that you want to replace with Windows XP Professional.
Advantages of Remote Installation Services
Remote Installation Services offers a simple way to replace the operating system on a computer. RIS uses the Single Instance Store (SIS) method to eliminate duplicate files and to reduce the overall storage that is required on the server for system files. You can also use the Riprep option to install and configure a client computer to comply with specific corporate desktop standards.
The following list describes some of the important advantages of using RIS:
You can standardize your Windows XP Professional installation.
You can customize and control the end-user installation. You can configure the end-user Setup Wizard with specific choices that can be controlled by using Group Policy. For more information about Group Policy, see "Connecting Clients to Windows Networks" in this book.
You do not need to distribute physical media, and image size is not constrained by the capacity of distributed physical media.
Disadvantages of Remote Installation Services
You can use Remote Installation Services only on client computers that are connected to a network that is running Windows 2000 Server with Active Directory. RIS is restricted to working on computers that are equipped with PCI-compliant network adapters that are enabled for PXE technology, or with the Remote Boot Floppy Generator (Rbfg.exe) that is used to create a remote boot disk that can be used with supported PCI-compliant network adapters. RIS only works with images that have been created from drive C, and RIS cannot use images of other partitions on a hard disk. You cannot use RIS to upgrade an operating system; you can only use RIS for clean installations.
