RIS computer names

paradigm

paradigm

paradigm

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Hi guys,

I'm trying to amend our RIS server install, as it has only ever been used to run a standard CD install off the network.

What I want to do, is assign computer name (C-XXX-YYY###; where XXX = company initals, YYY = department, and ### = incremental zero filled number).

Now, I can do this company wide from the "remote install" tab in the ADU&C, but that would name all the computers the same department (for example C-IBM-CUS001, ...CUS002, ...CUS003 and so on). So setting this globally isn't really an option.

Is there a way of tying this (and computer OU placement) at an IMAGE level rather than at server level? So that if a user who only has permission to install a Customer Services image gets name C-IBM-CUS012, but a Warehouse guy installing the Warehouse image gets C-IBM-WHS034?

Can this be done in the SIF file? Or elsewhere?

Cheers

(P.S. If this belongs in Servers & Enterprise, feel free to move)
 
Personally, I use a custom install option and type the computer name on install. I know you can do the OU placement with this line:
Code: 
MachineObjectOU= "OU=Workstations, dc=contoso, dc=com"
 
I can't leave the users to give out computer names themselves, a) they would get confused, and b) the ones that did understand it would start putting rude things in there.

There must be a way of doing what I want/need.

Also, with that line, what section of the SIF are you sticking that in? [unattended]?
 
Cheers.

Unfortunately, no, using "C-IBM-WHS%03#" in the riprep.sif doesn't work. It throws up an error during installation and requires you to enter a machine name :(

Will migrating to WDS let me do what I want in a simple way? (I'd rather not, as I really despise WDS for XP deployment).
 
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