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

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

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:33:23 +0000

Hello Doug,
You don’t have to configure anything special on the DHCP server after you properly configure your WDS Server, just remember to leave UNCHECKED the options on the WDS configuration: “Do not listen on port 67″ and “Configure DHCP option 60 to ‘PXEClient’”.
The DHCP role is needed on the same network with WDS, but there are no special configurations to perform on it; it doesn’t have to be a Windows DHCP either, I’ve worked together with WDS and Linux DHCP servers.
Cheers!
Augusto

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:38:50 +0000

With Dhcp on a different server from the wds, what settings specifically need to be set in the dhcp server?

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