Session 9: Windows Deployment Service (WDS)
After a long vaccation I am again back to the Community Session of the Technetnepal.net. Due to my certain personal works and busyness I was not able to continue it. Although I have prepared this Content a month ago, Finally I am able to give it finishing Touch. Hope all the reader will enjoy this content.
My today’s topic is Windows Deployment Services (WDS). Windows Deployment Services helps us to deploy any of the Operating system to the number of Machine and allow to install on it at once. you don’t need to create a individual CD/DVD or wait any of the machine to complete the Installation to re-use the CD/DVD to another machine for the Installation of OS. This is one of the most time saving process added on the server. You can just activate some roles and then deploy the OS to the 100’s of Computers by sitting on your chair. Rather then words here I have tried to get snaps of all the steps which is mandatory to do.
1. This is the screen of my Windows Server 2008 R2.
2. Here I go to Server Manager on my desktop.
3. Here I go to the Roles and Add new Roles to on machine.
4. Here I do select 2 Roles one DHCP and another is WDS. To deploy WDS your Server machine should also be DHCP Server. Only which is able to Provide IP’s to the new machines and I hope you guys knows that IP is the identity of the machine (Volatile).
5. Now I select both the roles of the WDS as on the screen.
6. Here IP of my server is selected.
7. Here I do specify my Domain and DNS of my domain.
8. As I am not using WINS I just selected not required.
9. Now Here comes the screen to define the scope, where I do click on ADD button to get add new scope.
10. Here I Define the Scope name, Pooling IP’s and it’s Subnet Mask.
11. As I am not using IP V6 I just Disabled it so that it may not get interference with my other IP’s
12. Used my Current Credentials.
13. And now I just Install all the Configure Role of DHCP and WDS on my Machine.
14. Now here I open the DHCP from the Administrative Tool Present on my Start Menu and check whether it is running well or not. if there appears green Play then it is working well else you do have some problem with it. so try to get fix that problem first.
15. Before I check the Configuration of WDS I just copy the Install.wim and Boot.wim on my desktop inside the folder test. You can easily find these files for Windows 7 and Windows Server on it’s DVD..you can just go to path of ‘Sources’ where you find these two files. For XP you need to create one.
16. After copying Install.wim and Boot.wim I just go to the WDS of my machine, and start to configure it.
17. Make a left click on the server with exclamation mark and select the configure the WDS.
18.Click on Next.
19. It does not recommend you to have RemoteInstall file on C Drive but as this is my test machine I just do accept it on C drive.
20. Here I define port 60 for PXE Client. which is the facility on NIC to get boot from Network.
21. As I am deploying OS on a new machines I select to respond to all (Known and unknown) Client Computer. and then click finish.
22. These are my Install.wim and Boot.wim
23. Now I go for the boot Image and select to add a image.
24.To add Image I just give it’s path. and Click next.
25. Similarly I add the Install.wim on my machine.
26. Once all the Process get finish. I go to the Client Computer which is wired to my Server. Here I select the Boot Option of my machine from Network. and start it.
27. Here My Machine get IP and ask to Press F12 to get network services Boot. Once this is done, this is similar to the Installation of OS on Client Machine.
28. Here while installing the OS it ask you the password of administrator. The great thing about WDS is it automatically joins your machine with Domain. you don’t need to do this task later.
I hope you enjoyed this session. If you do have any queries please let you comment comes I will try my best to sort out you queries.
Aerrow.