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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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Server 2016, Using Different Bootfiles to Deploy Company Specific Images

I have a switch with 3 VLANs. I have a WDS server (with DHCP and DNS) with 3 virtual NICs, each NIC is tied to one of those VLANs. Each VLAN corresponds to a company that we work with. I have 3 scopes setup, so that a computer plugged into a port…
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unattend.xml account created but no admin rights

I have my unattend.xml right here: https://pastebin.com/FBiy3RTK It creates the admin account witj the password that is stated but for some reason it doesnt putt it in the group administr a tors altough above the user admin it says group…
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WDS/MDT server - remoteinstall folder on network share or local volume?

I'd like to get this right now. In setting up WDS, I'm getting errors pointing to a mapped network drive and I'm wondering if I should just provision a local volume for this WDS/MDT virtual machine. Is it best practice to use a local volume and not…
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Can not find script file "Z:\Scripts\LiteTouch.wsf"

I installed and configured MDT 2013 yesterday on server 2012. I have a WDS also. I am able to create a WIM file. I did PXE boot into a test virtual machine and I was able to install Windows 10. My MDT is also on vmware ESXI. MDT server is joined to…
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WDS ERROR on some workstations (Error retrieving network information (0x80072743))

At first I apologize for my poor English. I've installed WDS role on a Windows Server 2008 R2 and configured it with an install WIM Image of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and its associated boot image and unattended answer file. My WDS server is a…
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Set Windows 10 Default Start Layout

How can we set the default start layout and task bar icons for each user in Windows 10, yet still let users modify them later? I know you can use an XML file to set these, but a standard XML file locks them down and a partial start layout does not…
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Windows Application Log: Persistent errors BINLSVC 1284

This is WSE 2016 with the Client Restore Service enabled. We're getting persistent errors in our single DC's event log: I found this related…
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WDS + MDT How to avoid pxe boot loop

I am trying to automate the reimage process for our SuperMicro servers. Generally, i want to achive the situation from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/hh831764(v=ws.11) Ron…
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Windows Server WDS 2008 R2 deploying windows 10

Good Afternoon StackExchange! I am currently in a position where WDS is part of my duty. I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 AD/DC that also host the WDS services. My image that I captured is Win_Pro_10_1703.1_64BIT. When I use WDS deploy on a client…
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Windows 10 app provisioned to non-existent user

I created an image of Windows 10 1709 and now I want to run sysprep so I can upload to WDS. Sysprep fails: Package Microsoft.BingNews_4.21.2212.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe was installed for a user, but not provisioned for all users. It shows it exists,…
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WDS + GRUB2 UEFI: most menu items not working

We are using WDS to deploy operating systems to several types of machines. As per this small guide, I got the UEFI clients to boot grub, but most of the menu items aren't working. When highlighting a selection and pressing enter, nothing happens,…
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Adding Windows 2016 to WDS

PS C:\Users\administrator.INTERNAL> dism /export-image /sourceimagefile:F:\sources\install.swm /swmfile:F:\sources\install*.swm /sourceindex:1 /destinationimagefile:C:\Users\administrator.INTERNAL\Desktop\install.wim I can successfully pull the…
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SCCM 2012 PXE issue

We've had an issue that has persisted for about 10 days now, which has gone unnoticed by myself because we haven't imaged a whole lot of PCs lately. Essentially, we get the "E53 - No boot filename received" error when trying to boot clients.…
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Windows (Server 2012) Unattended Problems (Partitioning, Language, EULA)

Windows Server 2012 - WDS installed and configured to deploy Windows Server 2012 on several clients. Two problems are occuring during / after installation of Windows 2012 via WDS: If the Server had Linux installed before the reinstallation, Windows…
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Cannot reboot after applying WIM file

I've built a developer image and am deploying it to workstations. It's a sysprepped image but I'm facing one issue at the end that I'm hoping someone can help me resolve which is where the machine is not bootable. Because this is for a relatively…
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