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3-25Lesson 3 Performing Remote Installations

Lesson 3: Performing Remote Installations

Remote Installation Services (RIS) is a service that is available for servers running Win-

dows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 in a Microsoft Active Directory directory

service environment. The RIS server is a disk image server that contains as many disk

images as are necessary to support the different configurations of Windows XP Profes-

sional on a network. A RIS client is a computer that connects to the RIS server and

downloads an image for installation. The RIS server might be preconfigured to down-

load a particular image to a client computer, or the user might be able to select an

image manually from a special RIS Administration menu.

After this lesson, you will be able to■

Describe how RIS is used

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Install and configure RIS on a server running Windows Server 2003

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Explain requirements for RIS client computers

Estimated lesson time: 60 minutes

Overview of RIS

RIS provides the best features of unattended installations and disk duplication and also

provides a powerful way to make remote installations possible in large network envi-

ronments. The basic RIS process works as follows: