How do you build servers in your job?

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We currently support 2000+ servers and are building them at a crazy rate, however the build process is cumbersome and pretty crap.

Using Altiris to deploy the OS
Then using IBM Bigfix to deploy the packages to the server.
We also have to manually reserve IP's in infoblox and update countless spreadsheets...

We are looking at possibily moving to SCCM in the future, but i'm not sure if it will be as powerful as bigfix, the downside to bigfix is it is ridiculously complicated to create packages, as i think its written in apple script!

At present the OS can be deployed in 30mins. That includes all the HP sum stuff.
We then get the bigfix stuff done in under an hour, while filling in all the spreadsheets :(


How do you build your and how long does it take?
 
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