WDS/MDT
Configure Windows Deployment Services (WDS) – Part4
0OK, we have finally reached the last part of these series. Here I’m going to talk about answer files, how to create them and where to put them for Windows automation. WDS answer files, are xml files that help you automate the deployment of systems, by completing or answering those Windows wizards. To give you an example, on a Windows 7 deployment you have to choose a keyboard language, a time zone, provide a serial number for the product, but now you don’t have to; an answer file ca do it for you. Let’s see how answer files are created. (more…)
Configure Windows Deployment Services (WDS) – Part3
0In the first two parts of this series I showed you how to install and configure WDS, and how to deploy your first OS. Now that we have an OS installed, we need to install the proper drivers and software, then deploy this OS to the rest of the machines. So go ahead and configure the system the way you want, then come back here and read the rest. (more…)
Configure Windows Deployment Services (WDS) – Part2
0In the first part (click here for the first part) I showed you how to install and configure your WDS server, and how to add a boot or install image. In this part we are going to deploy a clean Windows 7 system from the image we previously imported in WDS. For this to work you client computer(s) needs to be able to boot from the network. (more…)
Configure Windows Deployment Services (WDS) – Part1
2You installed your first WDS server in the network to ease your job, but now it needs to be configured if you want to be able to deploy some images. In this first part of these guide series I’ll show you how to configure your WDS server, and how to add boot and install images. The process is straight forward being driven by wizards. For those of you that don’t know what WDS is or how to install it please go this link. For this demonstration WDS server is installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 system, and for client system deployments I will use a Windows 7 Enterprise x64 Edition DVD. (more…)
Install WDS (Windows Deployment Services) on Windows Server 2008 R2
0WDS comes from Windows Deployment Services and is a Windows role used to deploy operating systems to machines in your organization. His predecessor was RIS (Remote Installation Services) user to deploy old OSs like XP and 2003 server. I bet you remember those times walking to 50 new workstations and install the OS on every one of them, those war some ugly times. Now you import the OS to WDS and install those computers using your network, that’s right…client computers will boot from the network and get installed; no more waking around with a bunch of disks in your hands, but before we can do that we need to install the role. In tihs post I am going to show only the installation part, leaving the configuration and testing part for the future. (more…)
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