Unattended, A Windows Deployment System

Unattended. From their site:

Features include:

• Automated install of operating system, hotfixes and applications.
• Full documentation and source code.
• Support for floppy, CD-ROM, and "nothing but net" installs.
• True unattended installation, not disk imaging.
• No Windows servers required; use your Unix servers instead.
• No Unix servers required; use your Windows servers after all.
• Completely free.

When you are finished setting up Unattended, you will be able to boot any PC from a floppy, from a CD-ROM, or directly from the network, answer a few questions, and come back an hour or two later to a fully-installed Windows workstation.

Update: I gave it a look-see, and it looks like it would be useful for Windows 2003, and that's about it. Considering deployments of that are dropping off of a cliff, it doesn't look useful.

MSDeploy, First Looksies

Microsoft has a tool which promises to simplify IIS deployments, known as MSDeploy.

I had a little trouble finding documentation, but I finally found a link pointing here.

Update: Dinked around with it a little, and it is looking pretty darn cool. Heavily slanted towards IIS7, it looks like it works reasonably well with IIS6.

NirCmd?

Was reading about something else, and NirCmd came up. It is a command line utility, with a bunch of functionality. Very lightweight, no install necessary.

I haven't looked at it, yet. Just bookmarking...

Update:Meh. I like that it is really small, and I have a copy of it on my thumbdrive, but it ain't all that.