Datasheet
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Minimizing Deployment Time
FIguRe 1-2: Congure the DHCP tab if DHCP and WDS
are on the same server.
In the PXE Response tab of the WDS server’s properties, congure an appropri-3
ate response policy. You can congure WDS to respond to any computers that
PXE boot, to known computers only, or to both known and unknown comput-
ers, but manual administrator approval is required for unknown computers.
WDS knows a computer if you have pre-staged an account for that computer in
Active Directory and associated that pre-staged account with the GUID of the
network adapter. You can pre-stage an account using the WDSUTIL.exe utility
from the command prompt. For example, to pre-stage a computer account named
SERVER42 with the network card GUID AABBCCDDEE112233445566778899AABB,
issue the following command from an elevated command prompt:
WDSUTIL.exe /Add-Device /Device:SERVER42 /ID:
AABBCCDDEE112233445566778899AABB
On the Boot tab of the WDS server’s properties, congure the level of interac-3
tion you require from the client. You can choose between having to press the
F12 key to continue the PXE boot, always perform the PXE boot, or continue
the PXE boot unless interrupted by the ESC key. You can specify the default
boot images for each architecture. You can select only from boot images that
you’ve already added to WDS.
In the case of
Server 2008 R2,
unless you are using
IA64, it is almost
always going to
be x64.
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