WDS

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – Injecting drivers into Windows 7 and WIndows 2008R2

Posted by jewe on 02/10/2009 at 12:20 pm

The final part about this item. First of all we need the "Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7" after installing the Kit I added the directory "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\Servicing" to the system variables path variable. Before we are to inject some stuff. We have to export a image, so right click on your [...]

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – Capture a Windows 7 Image

Posted by jewe on 29/09/2009 at 3:11 pm

Well guys it took me a lot of time (and google sessions) to solve this issue. Having installed the Windows 7 OS and installed the complete office surrounding including additional software. After all this work started windows update so the machine is updated to the latest versions. So far so good. mmmmm now the trouble [...]

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – Creating the capture image.

Posted by jewe on 08/09/2009 at 8:44 am

Inside WDS you have to go to the boot images. Select the appropriate one and right click on it. Choose "create capture boot image", enter your image name and description and the location were to store the capture.wim file. Click on next and wait a while. When completed click on finish. Adding the capture image [...]

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – The Basics

Posted by jewe on 04/09/2009 at 8:52 am

First of all you have to install the appropriate "Role" on your Windows 2008 server. After installing I would say reboot your machine. Now the nice part starts, collect your operating systems which has to be distributed. I used VirtualCloneDrive to mount the DVD. Now you can mount the iso image including your OS, Copy [...]