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September 03, 2007
Kevin is right, this has already been talked about , but he does a nice job of explaining the two types of multicasting. Two drawbacks to this however...First you cannot multicast across subnets, well you can but if your network supports this you are wide open to a SQL Slammer type of attack where one laptop brings your network to its knees. Second, you have to have Server 2008 to make this work. A simple, less costly solution, that you can utilize now is to use the 1E OSD Plus Pack , or SMSNomad...
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Filed under: Active Directory, Group Policy, Packaging, Patching, Beta, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, SCCM 2007, OSD, SMSNomad Branch, OSD Plus Pack, ConfigMgr, Server 2008
February 08, 2007
If you have used multicast to image computers in the past you know it can be much faster than unicast, for obvious reasons. This is also one of the biggest complaints I hear about using RIS, or its replacement WDS. Well it looks like WDS is going to get multicast, and even a better multicast than what is available today. Read Keith's post below to get more details. Multicast imaging support coming to Longhorn Server Lets face it, our new deployment tools rock. However, one significant customer feature...
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Filed under: Longhorn, OSD