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1. Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server needed. 2. Start / Run / DCPROMO to begin Active Directory Services. 3. www. activedir.org ---> great mailing list http://www.labmice.net/ActiveDirectory/default.htm That should be a good start. Any more particular, less broad questions?

It does help to pin the nics at their respected speeds so they wont have to negotiate duplexing and speeds.

Yeah, I prefer the multicast capibilities with ghost 7.5 then altiris ... even though altiris is helping MS develop SMS 3 .... My $0.02

QoS Windows 2000 style goes a little like this 1. You need Win2k Server to actually do the "bandwidth shaping". 2. Admission Control service needs to login as a service account on all the computers needing QoS 3. Your NIC and its drivers need to support 802.1p and MUST have it enabled in the device manager. IIRC those are the major sets for setup ... after that you configure the QoS through the ACS Am I missing something else here that he might need to know?

Wins and DNS are setup correct?

If you download sysprep 1.1 from MS's website it will allow you to build an image for multiple HD controllers. They also include numerous default PIDs to include in your sysprep.inf. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/incremental/sysprep11.asp Also, IIRC, in cmdlines.txt you should put in sysprep.exe -clean to remove the extra PIDs after the initial install. I cant find the link on this feature ... maybe google.