The two basic principles of Windows system administration:

• For minor problems, reboot
• For major problems, reinstall

This document is part of Unattended, a Windows deployment system. <http://unattended.sf.net/>

Related sites

You can obtain information and inspiration from these other sites:

• Automated Network Installations
  aka. "our friendly competition". An open source project with similar goals but different design.
• Real Men Don't Click
  Once upon a time, in spring 2000 to be exact, a merry band of system managers from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology set out on a mission, to apply their well tempered Unix knowledge to Windows 2000. Against all odds, they came back, mission accomplished (sort of) and were still able to tell their story.
• labmice.net [ Windows 2000 | Windows XP ]
  An index-website to Windows 2000 / XP / .NET information resources.
• AppDeploy.com
  AppDeploy does not sell products or services, but serves as an independent resource on the topic of desktop management.
• Windows 2000 Unattended Installations and related utilities
  by Oli Restorick
• Little rant about TXTSETUP.OEM

Extra documents

You may find these extra documents helpful:

• The Using Cygwin guide will show you how to use Cygwin to run the handy prepare script, rebuild the DOS boot disk images, and other things.
• Tyler Hepworth has contributed a document on setting up PXE without RIS on Windows 2000 Server.