Comments on: Hands-on with Windows Deployment Services

By: am

am — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:36:44 +0000

yep,Jim,to make the server roles as WDS,just enable it from server role.Choose the windows deployment services.

or if not mistaken ServerManagerCmd -installWDS for its command line.

but Rob,
one quick question,i still could not find out how to create image .wim for WinXP.

as far i knew,we have to create boot and install images,for any image that i would like to add.

looking forward to hear your reply

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:17:34 +0000

Jim – it’s pretty much identical really. Just enable the WDS role in Server Manager.

The only difference in 2008 is the great multicast feature!

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:26:06 +0000

Is there any way you might be willing to give instructions on WDS using Server 2008?

By: BootPee

BootPee — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:59:31 +0000

Hi!

Just a quick comment to your problem with .img vs .iso images. They’re the same. Just rename .img to .iso and automagically you have a fully working .iso file :)

By: bKTbo

bKTbo — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:31:33 +0000

In the WDS console under install images, right click and choose to add new install image. Browse to the location of the .wim file that you created when you ran the capture.
Add name and description info and you should be set.

By: A5Ben

A5Ben — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:15:08 +0000

I have successfully captured an XP image to my WDS server but I cannot figure out how to redeploy it. Can anyone share how they did this?

Thanks!

By: theruck

theruck — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:02:22 +0000

hi
i have the same behaviour – the capture image does nto show the partition to create the image from. i thouight it is because of some missing drivers for the ICH9 controller but i injected them into the image with no better result.
anyone has got a solution for this?

By: joe

joe — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:09:05 +0000

what about using riprep on the pc that you are trying to image? Is this still going to work on WDS>? thanks

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:44:05 +0000

Howdy! Thanks for the great post! I’m trying to deploy this in a production environment, and my setup is slightly different than yours in that my RIS server is seperate from my DHCP server. Can you shed any light on this issue? Both servers are joined to the domain, but the clients never get a boot filename.

Thanks!

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:03:34 +0000

To get the Volume to populate when doing a Windwos XP Capture you need to run Sysprep with the mini-set and reseal options or command switches. This will allow you to choose your XP disk. Also indeed for some reason you have to populate a local destination, even when uploading an image to wds.