[AusNOG] PXE Boot Installations

[Bevan Slattery]

Don't forget people said the same thing about AUSNOG when we set it up to replace OZ-ISP :)

[b]

> On 9 Feb 2014, at 1:35 pm, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I find it more amusing that people feel the need to keep reinventing the wheel. :)
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>> On 09/02/2014 2:33 PM, "Bevan Slattery" <bevan at slattery.net.au> wrote:
>> I have to say I do find it a touch ironic that System Administrators can't organise themselves to administer a system mailing list... :)
>> 
>> [b]
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>>> On 9 Feb 2014, at 1:28 pm, Nathan Brookfield <Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:
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>>> I think every single one of us here in one way or another dabbles or gets stuck doing Sys Admin work but I just don’t want to subscribe to mailing lists about it, that’s all.
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>>> It’s nothing specifically against you Daniel but when I check my e-mails on a Sunday and think ow something interesting on the NOG, I would love it to be about NOG, not SAG.
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>>> From: Daniel Watson [mailto:daniel at glovine.com.au] 
>>> Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2014 2:24 PM
>>> To: Nathan Brookfield; Matthew Byrne; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>> Subject: RE: PXE Boot Installations
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>>>  Most operators act as System Administrators in ONE way or another.... that fact has already been proven in the past
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>>> Regardless of that fact   it would stop a lot of bitching if people could post to a SAG ...
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>>> Not trying to cause an argument here or piss anyone off..   I just would like a bit of help from the general community, and shouldn't have to pay SAGE-AU for a quick response..
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>>> D.
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>>> From: Nathan Brookfield [Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au]
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 2:23 PM
>>> To: Daniel Watson; Matthew Byrne; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>> Subject: RE: PXE Boot Installations
>>> 
>>> Why would the Australian Network Operators Group need to start a Sys Admin mailing list . . . .
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>>> From: Daniel Watson [mailto:daniel at glovine.com.au] 
>>> Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2014 2:21 PM
>>> To: Nathan Brookfield; Matthew Byrne; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>> Subject: RE: PXE Boot Installations
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>>>  Thus  AusNog is in the need of a sysadmin mailing group and these issues wouldnt happen
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>>> D.
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>>> From: Nathan Brookfield [Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au]
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 2:20 PM
>>> To: Matthew Byrne; Daniel Watson; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>> Subject: RE: PXE Boot Installations
>>> 
>>> I hate to sound like a broken record but I second this.  Why am I being spammed with Sys Admin crap! How many times do we have to go over this . . .
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>>> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Byrne
>>> Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2014 1:37 PM
>>> To: Daniel Watson; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] PXE Boot Installations
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Not sure how many times you need to be reminded that this is a Network Operators Group?
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>>> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Watson
>>> Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2014 9:40 AM
>>> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>>> Subject: [AusNOG] PXE Boot Installations
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Gday Noggers,
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>>> We are now using PXE Boot installations to install all our servers from dedicated servers, to virtual servers and all servers in between
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>>> As part of the installation process with Windows 2008 R2 installations, it allows to setup additional services / features during the installation's post install,
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>>> ServerManagerCmd.exe -install Web-Server -allSubFeatures -restart
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>>> ServerManagerCmd.exe -install SMTP-Server -allSubFeatures -restart
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>>> ServerManagerCmd.exe -install telnet-client -allSubFeatures -restart
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>>> # 3 = automatically download but do not install updates, change to 4 for fully automatic
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>>> reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v AUOptions /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f
>>> 
>>> # We do always want to automatically install the critical RDP bugfix
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>>> net stop TermService /y
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>>> netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Desktop" new enable=yes
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>>> wuinstall.exe /install /match KB2621440
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>>> I was wondering if anybody on or off list might be able to provide some instructions on how to add to the script to set our WSUS and timeserver before it updates windows
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>>> If anybody can provide assistance I would be highly appreciative.
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>>> TIA
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>>> 
>>> D.
>>> 
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