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Minimizing Deployment Time
To add a Windows Server 2008 R2 image to WDS, perform the following general
steps:
1. Open the Windows Deployment Services console.
2. Right-click on the Install Images node, and then click Add Image Group.
Provide an appropriate name for the image group.
3. Right-click on the newly created image group, and then click Add Install
Image. Navigate to the install.wim le that you have prepared and then click
Next. Windows provides you with a list of the installations that are available
in the image. Select the installations that you want to add to the WDS server,
and then click Next twice. When the image is added, click Finish.
After the image has been added, you can set up a multicast transmission so that
clients that perform a PXE boot are able to install the image. To congure WDS to
deploy an operating system image in WIM format, perform the following general steps:
1. Open the Windows Deployment Services console.
2. Right-click the Multicast Transmission node, and then click the Create
Multicast Transmission item. Provide a transmission name.
3. Select the image group and the image that you wish to deploy, and then
click Next.
4. Choose between Auto-Cast and Scheduled-Cast. Choose a Scheduled-Cast if
you want to congure WDS to wait for a certain number of clients to request
the image or for deployment to start at a particular time.
5. After you’ve congured the multicast deployment, PXE boot your server hard-
ware and allow the deployment to commence.
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You can use WDS to deploy VHD images to clients. When you do this, a VHD le is
transferred from the WDS server to the target server, and the server is then cong-
ured to boot off that VHD image. To congure WDS to deploy an operating system
image in VHD format, perform the following general steps:
1. Ensure that the WDS server is congured with at least one boot image. Usu-
ally, this is the boot.wim le that you copied across from the Windows Server
2008 R2 installation media.
2. Open an elevated command prompt.
An Auto-Cast
allows WDS
to transmit an
image as soon as
a client requests
it. If another
client wants the
same image, it
is joined to the
transmission.
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