I'm running 8.0 HF2, and I'd like to do the following in a single shot:
- Install WinPE or boot to WinPE USB flash drive
- Erase Disk
- Partition Disk
- Scripted install of Windows 7 or 10
- Boot to Production
- Join the domain
- Wait 30 seconds (this eliminates errors)
- Install MSIE11 via a .bat (Windows 7 only)
- Change local admin password
- Uninstall WinPE
Once this baseline is in place on the PC, I currently have a bunch of jobs run one after another that run .bat files to install the other software we use, Office, Acrobat, Firefox, etc., etc. This is pretty error-prone process, with frequent returned errors for one reason or another.
I'd like to know if I could use DS 8.0's software function to do one-shot software installs: "Install these software packages on these computers right now, but don't do it as a matter of policy if you ever see them without it again."
This is primarily for deploying employee workstations. If an employee with local admin uninstalls Firefox, I'll assume they want it that way, and I don't want DS "fixing" this.
Thoughts?
Thanks!