Comments on: Installing and Configuring WDS (Windows Deployment Services): Full Images Deployment (Part I)

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:57:33 +0000

Hello Pardha,
Are you using the unattended file showed in the post? You can also use the tag to join the machine to a workgroup instead of a domain. Take a look also to the auto-add policy: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770832(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_2
Hope it helps,
Augusto

By: Pardha

Pardha — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:15:35 +0000

I have configured a WDS which has all Win 7 images in all versions…..

the problem I am facing here is whenever I try installing OS to a client, the client automatically gets a name and it is also getting joined to the domain…How can I stop it ????

Any workaround will be highly appreciated :)

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:51:29 +0000

Hello there,
In the Event Viewer you can find anything related to WDS?
I’ve seen similar errors to that, and it was related with corrupted installation of WDS. I would recommend to: Uninstall WDS role, reboot the server, remove the RemoteInstall folder created earlier and re-run the installation process again.
Best regards,
Augusto

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:31:28 +0000

Hello Regis,
I’m pretty sure that using that configuration is not “fully supported” by Microsoft. Did you try using the Option 60 in DHCP pointing the PXE to your Linux?
Best regards,
Augusto

By: durgadas

durgadas — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:17:07 +0000

I’d like to know if it’s possible to image in this situation:
1) WDS and DHCP are running on Microsoft servers, also using pxechain.com to point to
2) My PXE server for Linux where I’ll provide the remaining info. This PXE (tftp) server IS NOT a DHCP server, however, and cannot be.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Regis

By: aaronhurst.tech@gmail.com

aaronhurst.tech@gmail.com — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:42:12 +0000

Hi, I am trying to install the service on a server 2k3 standard machine that is running the DHCP as well as WDS. I get the service to install, however when i get to the step that you add a boot image, (or any image) it is showing access denied. I have logged in as the Domain Admin, and several other accounts in the administrators group. I have tried adding access permissions for each account that I have used to the C:\remoteinstall folder, and still no luck. Do you have any suggestions?

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By: shaheen

shaheen — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:15:59 +0000

will u display the wds please

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By: JimS

JimS — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:35:45 +0000

I installed the Windows 7 OS, downloaded the WindowsAIK, created a share on my server remotely and made a UDF USB boot drive on onw PC.
When I try to create a new task sequence I get an error about denied access to the share on the server.

If I have gone astray; where?
Thanks,

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By: toramsrinu

toramsrinu — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:28:48 +0000

thanks for advise to install wds

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:26:24 +0000

I haven’t test it, but it should work perfectly since WDS use some of DHCP options that are defined with the common standard.
Cheers!
Augusto

By: Chet

Chet — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:58:22 +0000

Hi Augusto.
Does WDS work with DHCP set-up on Cisco Routers?

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:38:43 +0000

hi
would like to know if its possible to deploy windows 2008 R2 from WDS installed on windows 2003 server ?

when i tried its giving error like operation failed with 0×80070002 .
were as i could install 2008 sp2 from the same server any issues.

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:07:38 +0000

Hello TKMC,
Consider that a customized image it is available for 120 days (3 “slmgr -rearm” executions + the first 30 days), so if you have a customized image within your WDS for about 2 months, if you deploy that image right now, you will only have 2 “slmgr -rearm” available to execute.
And for your second question, if you use the raw install.wim from an ISO file or media to upload it to WDS, you will have the chance to run the slmgr -rearm command 3 times when you deploy that image, and it won’t matter if you have the same uploaded image for over 4 o 5 months, you will still have the 3 rearms executions.
That is basically the difference between a raw and customized image.
Hope it helps.
Cheers!
Augusto

By: tkmc

tkmc — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:59:19 +0000

Unfortunately I did not fully understand this part:

3 – Rearm activations: If you use the command line “slmgr –rearm” on the Vista installations to reset back your grace period back to 30 days, you should know that Vista only allows 3 times to run this command. But when you deploy a full image, the times that you can run this command line reduces according to the time when the image was created. But using the clean WIM file extracted from the Vista media, does not have that drawback when you run the rearm command.

I know that running “slmgr -rearm” can only be run 3 times, however what do you mean by deploying a full image reduces the amount of time according to the time the image was created? Do you mean the time a custom image was captured? And what about the last sentence? Does it mean if I use the install.wim on the Windows Vista Retail Media (or a TechNet Plus Retail ISO) that I can rearm an unlimited amount of times?

Any clarification would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks