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Windows Deployment Services. A technology from Microsoft for network-based installation of Windows operating systems based on PXE.

Windows Deployment Services is a technology from Microsoft for network-based installation of Windows operating systems. It is the successor to Remote Installation Services. WDS is intended to be used for remotely deploying Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, but also supports other operating systems because unlike its predecessor RIS, which was a method of automating the installation process, WDS uses disk imaging, in particular the Windows Imaging Format (WIM). WDS is included as a Server Role in all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 and is included as an optionally installable component with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Deployment_Services

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Any reason not to skiprearm when deploying Win7?

If you always intend to deploy within your organization, and license windows with KMS, is there ever a reason not to include skiprearm=1 in your various unattend files? Seems to let me get more use out of my images.
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VirtualBox PXE Boot using PCnet-FAST III - Windows 7 driver required?

I'm using WDS to deploy a windows 7 image that I've captured. Unfortunately, the AMD PCnet-FAST III is not recognised by windows 7 with VirtualBox. Can anyone help me find a driver and or suggest another NIC to use with VirtualBox?
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Is it possible to do Windows 7 Deployment via a Linux PXE environment?

I wanted to know if it's possible to do Windows 7 Deployment via a Linux PXE environment, or does the PXE server (TFTP, Images) have to be Windows Server 2008?
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WDS server & Cisco ASA (DHCP)

My setup: WDS server (w2indows 2003 R2) located on subnet 10.1.1.10 Various site locations all on different subnets. Eah site has a Cisco ASA firewall configured to respdon to DHCP requests. Questions Is it possible to leave my Cisco ASA's as the…
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Removing local user accounts from a WDS WIM capture

I'm setting up a WIM to image a set of laptops. I have setup a computer which I have sysprep'ed and then captured the image to the WDS server. I have deleted all the local user accounts using the control panel. However when I image a computer from…
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Deleting locally created user after WDS Deployment

I'm pushing out a new Win7 image to several machines using WDS, unattend.xml, and oobeunattend.xml. Naturally you have to create the local user in the OOBE experience but it isn't something I want to keep there. I added this to my OOBE.xml but it…
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Minimum Requirements for ImageUnattend.xml Porition of WDS For Windows Server 2008 R2

What are the minimum required fields for an unattended Windows Server 2008 R2 installation via Windows Deployment Service for the ImageUnattend.xml portion?
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Windows 7 deployment thru WDS

I am deploying new systems on my network and I built my reference computer by installing the OS the manufacturers (Dell and a custom built system from some local business) gave with all drivers, installed all the desired applications. As for the…
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Switching from WDS to MDT

I am in the process of moving from WDS to MDT. I will be installing MDT alongside WDS on the same box. The concept I am not grasping is at what point in this process will clients pxe boot to the MDT service instead of the already established WDS…
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Import-WdsInstallImage : An install image could not be found in the image file

I am trying to import install images into WDS. However I get the following error: Import-WdsInstallImage : An install image could not be found in the image file. At line:3 char:1 + Import-WdsInstallImage -ImageGroup 'Win2019' -ImageName $ImageName…
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Is there a way to tell what image was used to deploy a machine from Windows Deployment Services?

Is there a way to tell what image was used to deploy a machine from Windows Deployment Services? Is there some sort of a hash that would identify a machine being deployed from a particular image?
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WDS slow install using private Subnet

I've have an Microsoft WDS server with 2 network interfaces. Primary Network interface to be used by management, it's the main one with an standard configuration (routing,dns and connected to Active Directory) The second Network interface is…
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Chainloading to WDS from iPXE with UEFI

I am in the process of configuring our WDS server to support booting multiple OS's over the network. We have this setup and working using PXELinux for BIOS systems but need to support UEFI systems going forward. I have iPXE loading and displaying a…
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can't deply image from WDS server on multiple Virtual machines

Background: I have 3 test virtual machine, WDS+DHCP+DC and two client . when I'm going deploy win10 on one machine every things is okay . I didn't change the default setting dhcp runs on port 67 and the pxboot option 60 is set. Problem :but when I'm…
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WDS boot taking a long time over site-to-site VPN connection

We have three sites and a new server colocation facility that we are in the process of bringing online. We have several WDS servers at each site. We are moving servers from the smallest site to the colocation facility. The colocation facility…
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