Can start in one of three ways: - A threshold (such as 10 clients) number of clients connects - Specific time of day can be set - Admin can manually start it by right-clicking the multicast transmission and selecting Start

Deploy and Manage Server Images Flashcards by Andrew S

WDS

Windows Deployment Services

Deploy images to clients or servers to multiple servers via the network.

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What role must be installed on the server to rapidly deploy system images on the network?

WDS

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What format does WDS expect for deployment?

.wim
.vhd
.vhdx

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What does WDS require the network to support?

AD Directory Services (Though not entirely true. Can be stand-alone.)
DHCP
DNS
NTFS volume on the server
You must have local admin credentials for the server
Client systems should have PXE network support

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Legacy WDS tools

RIS - Remote Installation Services (Server 2000)

Automated Deployment Services (Server 2003)

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Important differentiation between WDS and its predecessors.

WDS supports multicast communication

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Multicast communication

one - to -many network addressing.

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Server 2012 R2 WDS supports what OSes

Vista SP1
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2003
XP

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WDS can be deployed as _____ or with ____, as part of a domain

Stand-alone server

Active Directory Domain Services

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Because of the nature of PXE, _____ and ____ are required for WDS

DHCP

DNS

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Client hardware requirements to install Server 2012 over WDS

512 MB RAM

1.4GHz processor

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Client hardware requirements to install Windows 8 over WDS

1GB RAM

1GHz or faster processor

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Types of WDS images (wim files)

Boot images
—– regular boot image (principle function)
—– Capture images (additional type)
—– discover images (additional functionality)
installation images

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boot images

Contains just the WDS client and Windows PE

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Windows PE

Windows Preinstallation environment

Mini-OS used to connect the system to the WDS server and provides the option to select installation.

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installation images

The actual Windows installation media packaged into a single WIM file.

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discover images

Exported to ISO and burned or stored on CDs, DVDs, USBs, etc. Designed to be used as boot media for PCs that don’t support PXE, or for if the network itself does not support PXE

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sysprep

Microsoft deployment tool used to clear the machine’s SID and operating system configurations specific to the system that will be imaged.

Generalizes the image

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capture images

Created from a boot image, but instead of running setup (like an installation image) the capture image runs the WDS capture utility.

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WDS capture utility

used to connect a system that has been prepared for imaging or cloning, to the WDS system to create a new installation image that can be deployed later to WDS clients

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What format are capture images?

*.wim

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Scheduled-cast

Can start in one of three ways:

A threshold (such as “10 clients”) number of clients connects
Specific time of day can be set
Admin can manually start it by right-clicking the multicast transmission and selecting Start

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Auto-cast

Start automatically when a client connects. If an image is transferred to 10 clients, transmission will start as soon as the first one connects. It won’t wait for all 10 to connect.

If a workstation joins mid-stream, it joins the multicast. It catches up after the multicast is done.

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install.wim

The actual windows installation that runs on Windows PE

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boot.wim

This is the | Windows PE image

.wim file

Windows Image File | Started using this for installation media instead of CAB files in 2008 with Windows Vista

WDSUTIL

Command-line tool to interact with WDS. | Not powerShell

PXE

Pre-execution enviornment. Supported by a network card. Small environment available to the firmware that allows it to go out to the DHCP server to grab an IP and get instructions for loading up the OS.

RAM requirements for PXE boot

512 MB ram

Where do you create answer files?

WinSIM

Windows ADK

Windows Automated Deployment Kit

Where do you find WinSIM?

ADK

unattend file versus answer file

No difference. An answer file is an unattend file.

Add-WdsDriverPackage

Adds an existing driver package to a driver group or injects it into a boot image.

Approve-WdsClient

Approves clients. Unknown clients require approval before the server that runs Windows Deployment Services boots the client in the Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE)

Copy-WdsInstallImage

Copies install images within an image group.

Deny-WdsClient

Denies approval for clients.

Disable-WdsBootImage

Disables a boot image.

Disable-WdsDriverPackage

Disables a driver package in the Windows Deployment Services driver store.

Disable-WdsInstallImage

Disables an install image.

Disconnect-WdsMulticastClient

Disconnects a multicast client from a transmission or namespace.

Enable-WdsBootImage

Enables a boot image.

Enable-WdsDriverPackage

Enables a driver package in the Windows Deployment Services driver store.

Enable-WdsInstallImage

Enables an install image.

Export-WdsBootImage

Exports an existing boot image from an image store.

Export-WdsInstallImage

Exports an existing install image from an image store.

Get-WdsBootImage

Gets properties of boot images from the image store.

Get-WdsClient

Gets client devices from the pending device database, or pre-staged devices from Active Directory or the standalone server device database.

Get-WdsDriverPackage

Gets properties of driver packages from the Windows Deployment Services driver store.

Get-WdsInstallImage

Gets properties of install images from an image store.

Get-WdsInstallImageGroup

Gets properties of install image groups.

Get-WdsMulticastClient

Gets a list of clients connected to a multicast transmission or namespace.

Import-WdsBootImage

Imports a boot image to the image store.

Import-WdsDriverPackage

Imports a driver package into the Windows Deployment Services driver store.

Import-WdsInstallImage

Imports an install image to an image store.

New-WdsClient

Creates a pre-staged client.

New-WdsInstallImageGroup

Creates an install image group.

Remove-WdsBootImage

Removes a boot image from the image store.

Remove-WdsClient

Removes a pre-staged client from AD DS or the stand-alone server device database, or clears the Pending Devices database.

Remove-WdsDriverPackage

Removes a driver package from a driver group or removes it from all driver groups and deletes it.

Remove-WdsInstallImage

Removes an install image from an image store.

Remove-WdsInstallImageGroup

Removes an install image group.

Set-WdsBootImage

Modifies settings of a boot image.

Set-WdsClient

Modifies a pre-staged client device.

Set-WdsInstallImage

Modifies the properties of an install image.

Set-WdsInstallImageGroup

Modifies the name and access permissions of an install image group.