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As far as I understood you don't want to boot of windows from the network, so their c:-drive resides on some sort of SAN. You just want to do a local installation of windows over the network that should run simultanesly, right? If this is so, the way would be to setup one PC as needed, sysprep the system and make an image. For rolling out this image at the same time to all computers, you need to have an imageprogram that supports multicast. I know that there is a version of Norton Ghost, that has a multicast-server. This way the server is sending out the image only once and all PCs will get the image at the same time. Networkwise you'll only need a switch where all PCs are connected and configured to the same network. You'll have to boot the PCs with a special boot-cd, that acts as ghost-client.
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As far as I understood you don't want to boot of windows from the network, so their c:-drive resides on some sort of SAN. You just want to do a local installation of windows over the network that should run simultanesly, right? If this is so, the way would be to setup one PC as needed, sysprep the system and make an image. For rolling out this image at the same time to all computers, you need to have an imageprogram that supports multicast. I know that there is a version of Norton Ghost, that has a multicast-server. This way the server is sending out the image only once and all PCs will get the image at the same time. Networkwise you'll only need a switch where all PCs are connected and configured to the same network. You'll have to boot the PCs with a special boot-cd, that acts as ghost-client.

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I want to install windows 7 on at least 20 computers on a network simultaneously. What network infrastructure is required to facilitate this? <br />
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Thank you in advance.
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Hi;

I want to install windows 7 on at least 20 computers on a network simultaneously. What network infrastructure is required to facilitate this? 
 

Thank you in advance.

Network infrastructure for network OS installation

Windows 7 is an operating system from Microsoft. Features include multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, referred to as the Superbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements.

Windows 7

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.