How to fully prepare the system for use?

Question

System administration

At our company, employees often change, new ones come in, computers change. So it turns out that you have to spend a lot of time on the initial preparation of the computer for work - installing all the necessary programs, network configuration, connecting to the git .. I want to somehow automate the process.
In VM, the problem is solved simply - a snapshot of the finished machine + minimal corrections. But:
1. A lot of physical computers
2. Ideally, I would like to prepare a "smart" installer that, when connected to the network, can connect to its database (yes, even with excel, which is in the git), and see, for example , what is the first free IP that you can take (we have our own address divisions).
What would be the best way to do something like this? Pointing your nose in the right direction is welcome :)
(Ease of execution is not the main thing - the main priority is the quality and convenience of the final product)

Answer 1

Maybe look towards PXE?
Here, for example, is a step-by-step instruction for Windows 7:
https://3dnews.ru/626279
It turns out quite nicely: the first time you start the PC, it boots from the network and pulls up all the system settings from there.

Answer 2

Make a wds server. Deliver settings and software through domain policies.

Answer 3

Rule one - do not sculpt bicycles. For distribution of IP addresses - either hands, or DHCP. Sculpting some kind of parsers that will drag free addresses from some databases is wildness. To do this, yeaaaaaavy, they came up with automation a long time ago :)
The second rule is that a windows domain is not only valuable fur, that is, AD. These are also automatic image deployment services that can be configured - and then, in just two or three clicks, an already prepared and partially configured system will be installed. Yes, preparing an image is not always easy - but the time spent on preparing it pays off a hundred thousand million times, especially with mass deployment of the same type, for example, when opening branches.

Answer 4

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Center_Config...