Create an automated citrix server Installation with RIS and Orca.
Wednesday, 16 January 2008 by Jan van der Elst
 

In AD Users and Computers, right-click your RIS server, click on properties and go to the Remote Install tab.

RIS Server properties

On the Remote installation properties screen, go to the images tan and click on Add....

 
 Add new installation image

Click Add a new installation image and follow the wizard.

For more information about setting up RIS visit:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;298750

After the RIS-install is created. You can find it in the \\RISserver\reminst\setup\language\images folder on your server. In your W2k3-image folder you must create a $OEM$ folder and in this folder you must create a folder named $1 . Everything that you place in this folder will be copied to the first partition/hard disc on your hard disk/server.

 folder structure

 

I usually copy the entire Citrix installation cd into the $1 folder. To save space, you can also copy just the files that you need.