I have been talking with Landesk in doing some customized setups for a few style of PC's. Basically, we have laptops, and desktops. We want laptops to have 3 extra pieces of software, what is the best method to install them? I'd like to install them based on computer model. If the model is a laptop (E6410, E6400, D620, D630) install this set of software. Is it possible to auto put in a key, and auto activate it? So far i've tried using slmgr with no luck in the <FirstLogonCommands> area. One more thing, not such a big deal ... but windows updates, how hard are they to pluck in? Our images are never on the domain, so they won't see our SUS server until added, but we cannot do that, as it would cause issues. So each install requires all windows updates to be installed. Any way to do this easier?
Better yet ... I could juts do windows updates, since I update my images constantly. SO it doesn't have to be automated, I just need a way to accumulate all windows updates to install. I also figured out the activation process. I am using SetupComplete.cmd.