Owner's Manual

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* Working knowledge of Microsoft Remote Installation Services (RIS)
and Automated Deployment Services (ADS) (including setting up of RIS
and ADS environments), or any other third party deployment system or
tool.
* Working knowledge of Windows Deployment Services (WDS) or any
other third party deployment system or tool for Windows PE 2.0
* A workstation with the following capabilities:
-- A writable CD drive and CD writing software
-- Network access
* A target system with a CD drive if you are performing a local
deployment or network access if you are performing a network
deployment.
* All Deployment Toolkit utilities, sample scripts, and sample
configuration files.
* All required Windows PE drivers, operating system drivers, and the
Dell utility partition image file.
* A minimum BIOS version is recommended on some of the platforms for
all the DTK options to work correctly. In general, it is good
practice to use the latest ("n") version of BIOS firmware or the
"n-1" version that is available on "support.dell.com."
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RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
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Deployment Toolkit version 2.4 adds the following features:
* Support for Dell PowerEdge systems T105, R200, and R900
NOTE: Other systems may be supported with this release. Check
"support.dell.com" to verify the supported systems and to
download the latest version of the toolkit.
* Support for Windows PE 2.0
* Support for PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller (PERC) 6 and
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6 family of controllers
* Support for RAID levels: RAID 6 and RAID 60
* Support for installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008
NOTE: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is scheduled to be available
in the first half of 2008. For the latest information, see