[Unattended] Unattended project

[Patrik K. <pa...@ye...>]

Hello and thanks for a wonderful package of ease for system
administration!

I'm at a new client to which I want to show the magic of unattended
installations compared to ghosting, and it's working pretty well.
However, the "apply patches and updates" procedure takes a fair amount
of time, 1+ hour because of all the reboots.

But as far as I can recall, the WindowsUpdate tool doesn't require that
many reboots (or even that many patches?).

I'm going to check how WindowsUpdate performs the updates and mimic that
way (probably use .ignore-err on some updates) to minimize the time
needed for re-install but I would love to see this go upstream as well
in cvs.

Would that be a possible change?

On another note, I'm having problems figuring out the best way for
system administration/maintenance here and would love to hear your
thoughts:

* Application installation
Would the best way to go be to install as many packages as possible upon
installation and then migrate them to AD-deployment after time?

* Hotfixes
Should I install WSUS and just use Unattended for OS-installation or
should WSUS handle updates released after OS-installation only?

Moreover, I can't seem to get the bootmenu from boot.ini to disappear
using Unattended - is there some fix for this?
I get a second option "Previous operating system" and a 30 second
timeout...

Also, here are some updates that have been released after the latest
cvs-version of winxpsp2-updates.bat:

:: Malicious Software Removal Tool - Apr. 2006 (KB890830)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\common
\Windows-KB890830-V1.15.exe /q"

:: Security update for Windows XP (KB911562)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB911562-x86-%
WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart"

:: Security update for Windows XP (KB908531)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB908531-x86-%
WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart"

:: WMP 10 Update (KB911565)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\mediaplayer10
\WindowsMedia10-KB911565-v2-x86-%WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart"

:: OE Cumulative (KB911567)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB911567-x86-%
WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart"

:: IE Cumulative (KB912812)
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\winxpsp2\WindowsXP-KB912812-x86-%
WINLANG%.exe /passive /n /norestart"

:: Windows Installer 3.1
todo.pl ".reboot-on 194 %Z%\updates\common\%WINLANG%
\WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe /passive /n /norestart"


Thanks again for a wonderful project!

/Patrik