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
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.