hi guys, as some of you may have noticed I wrote an 18 step guide to Zero Touch (bare metal unattended installs of Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008), and now to back that up and get everyone on board I've put together some new guides for installing the backbone of Zero Touch, aka, SMS 2003 (sp2).

I've broken it down into the following components:-

Before installing SMS

Install and configure IIS

Installing SMS

part 1 - how can I install SMS 2003 SP2 ?

part 2 - how can I configure SMS 2003 ?

part 3 - SMS 2003 final configuration

After Installing SMS

how can I deploy an application using SMS ?

If you follow the topics above then you'll have a working SMS 2003 sp2 server in no time at all, deploying packages such as FireFox 2.0.0.12 (in my example). Once you get to that stage, you are ready for the next stage, which is Zero Touch.

I hope some of you find this information useful

cheers

anyweb

Thanks mate, brilliant guide you got there!

Great guide, thanks for sharing it.

thanks I appreciate that ! took forever to put it all together, but I'm glad I did it as there wasn't anything similar out there according to google

Great guide, thanks for sharing it.

I was looking for a guide on that... THANKS!