Deploy and Manage Server Images Flashcards
WDS
Windows Deployment Services
Deploy images to clients or servers to multiple servers via the network.
What role must be installed on the server to rapidly deploy system images on the network?
WDS
What format does WDS expect for deployment?
.wim
.vhd
.vhdx
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
Legacy WDS tools
RIS - Remote Installation Services (Server 2000)
Automated Deployment Services (Server 2003)
Important differentiation between WDS and its predecessors.
WDS supports multicast communication
Multicast communication
one - to -many network addressing.
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
WDS can be deployed as _____ or with ____, as part of a domain
Stand-alone server
Active Directory Domain Services
Because of the nature of PXE, _____ and ____ are required for WDS
DHCP
DNS
Client hardware requirements to install Server 2012 over WDS
512 MB RAM
1.4GHz processor
Client hardware requirements to install Windows 8 over WDS
1GB RAM
1GHz or faster processor
Types of WDS images (wim files)
Boot images
—– regular boot image (principle function)
—– Capture images (additional type)
—– discover images (additional functionality)
installation images
boot images
Contains just the WDS client and Windows PE
Windows PE
Windows Preinstallation environment
Mini-OS used to connect the system to the WDS server and provides the option to select installation.
installation images
The actual Windows installation media packaged into a single WIM file.
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
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
capture images
Created from a boot image, but instead of running setup (like an installation image) the capture image runs the WDS capture utility.
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
What format are capture images?
*.wim
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
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.
install.wim
The actual windows installation that runs on Windows PE
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