Since all our servers are boot from SAN I was thinking about creating one LUN with a harden OS (2003 or 2008) and then running a sysprep on that and marking that LUN as read only and use that as a clone for new servers. My question is if I do that how can I package other drivers onto that image? Say I build it with a model of server that has a certain nic installed. Then I use that on a different server with a different NIC. Is there a way I can package those drivers into my image? If sysprep isn't the answer then is there another tool I can use? My idea is to really get away from a full building of a server because it takes so long for the actual install along with all the patches. I want some image that I can throw down and turn it on and just answer a few questions like Server name and have it up and running.

Hello, sysprep can be used to have a kind of included driver store: http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/cc736393(WS.10).aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314828 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828287 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744512(WS.10).aspx Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

Other than the previous suggestion of adding a custom driver store, which should work, you could create a real Microsoft image. ImageX from the Windows AIK would allow you to create an image and then DISM could be used to inject drivers and even Windows updates into your image even while offline. The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit can make this easier, but first things first. Shane Cribbs Georgia Technologies http://www.georgiatechnologies.com C Shane Cribbs http://www.georgiatechnologies.com