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– DHCP server available and authorized by Active Directory on your network. – Active Directory and DNS up and working.
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– Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003 SP2 * for the WDS server.
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Also you can find the Microsoft document “ Deploying and Managing the Windows Deployment Services Update on Windows Server 2003”. Here’s where Windows Deployment Services comes to play.įirst of all I want to thank a friend of mine, Leonardo, who made a great “How To”, in Spanish, for WDS with Windows Server 2003 SP1, here’s the link to see it. The bottom line is that a good and automated system to deploy your full operating systems images will significantly ( and I do mean significantly) improve your daily tasks: Making an awkward job of following the installations steps for maybe 2 or 3 hours and transforming it to 30mins of a complete unattended provisioning. No need to keep enumerating things that normally happens you probably know all of them. And don’t forget the consequences of any user’s intervention: overloading the hard drive, personal software installation, etc transforming always into a need to a fresh new installation. Why? Because every desktop computer on every organization has their own life cycle (even servers, a longer one, but cycle at last).Įven if your organization doesn’t have many desktops and even if those desktops don’t seem to need an image refresh in several months the dynamics of today’s technology makes your base operating systems to change: Updates available, service packs, a new version of your organization’s software, newer operating systems, etc. Annoying, uncomfortable, but necessary for every environment. In this post I’ll be setting the WDS requirements, installation, first configurations and images needed.ĭeploying operating systems it’s always a hard thing to do. I’ve prepared a complete guide to configure a WDS Server on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003 to deploy complete operating systems images, this is the first part.