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

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:57:01 +0000

Hello Roderic,
Microsoft recommends in the IPD guide for WDS, for best performance, plan to place the Windows Deployment Services servers as close to the clients as possible.
Also I would recommend to check this guide first about WDS: “Optimizing Performance and Scalability” http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732088(WS.10).aspx
Hope it helps,
Cheers!
Augusto

By: Roderic Dohleman

Roderic Dohleman — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:43:47 +0000

To push the boot installation traffic from PA to CO often leads to errors and the PXE boot fails in CO. Also, I do not want to consume bandwidth between the two offices.

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:35:28 +0000

Hello Roderic,
What do you mean by inefficient?
Augusto

By: Roderic Dohleman

Roderic Dohleman — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:12:19 +0000

Is there a way to customize the file location of the boot image? We use one WDS 2008 to deploy images in two offices (PA and CO) and to push a boot image over the net from PA to CO is inefficient (not to mention it usually fails) I was able to specify the Install Image location but the boot image now also need to be located in CO.

By: troubleshooterrockstar

troubleshooterrockstar — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:55:23 +0000

I stumbled into the situation. Try this instead:

1.In the Windows Deployment Services MMC snap-in, expand the Boot Images node.
2.Right-click the image to use it as a capture image. In most cases, you can just use the Boot.wim file from the DVD. 3.Click Create Capture Image.
4.Type a name, a description, and the location where you want to save a local copy of the file. You must specify a location in case there is a problem with the network when you deploy the capture image.
5.Continue to follow the instructions in the wizard and when it is complete, click Finish.
6.Right-click the Boot Image node.
7.Click Add Boot Image.
8.Browse and select the new capture image, and then click Next.
9.Follow the instructions in the wizard.

Note: If you do not run Sysprep on the computer before you boot into the image, you will not see any drives to capture.

After running Sysprep on the reference computer you can start the upload process.

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By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:27:42 +0000

Hi,

I have done that in the following step 3.

‘After the process completes, right click on the image you just added and select “Create Capture Boot Image”’

I browsed & located the boot.wim file which I stored on my desktop. However once PXE booted and selected image capture the wizard that appears is still the deployment service.

I cant see where I’m going wrong?

Regards

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:52:08 +0000

Hello Chris,
Are you booting the computer with the boot.wim that you’ve selected in WDS console with the option “Create Capture Boot Image”?
Cheers!
Augusto

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:12:15 +0000

Hi Augusto,

When I select ‘Image Capture’ at the PXE screen. The server boots into the deployment wizard and not the image capture wizard.

Any suggestions as to why it’s doing this?

Thanks

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:14:41 +0000

Hello dd,
Are you booting the computer with the boot.wim that you’ve selected in WDS console with the option “Create Capture Boot Image”?
Cheers!
Augusto

By: dd

dd — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:01:00 +0000

Deployment image services Image capture wizard doesn’t appear for me.
I’m using win7 install.wim and boot.wim from win7 media.

I have created a capture boot image and running the sysprep command from the commandline and boot on the capture image boot I come to the windows7 setup.

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:40:35 +0000

I have an issue with security

Just before you login to the deployment wizard client side you get a cmd box anybody client side could access Hdd through even wipe the whole drive how do you stop this

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:47:47 +0000

Hello JW,
I’ve seen that happen before, it could be for several reasons, for example, connectivity problems.
Try restarting the WDS service from the console and try the connection again.
If you keep having this problem, you can skip the process of uploading the image to the server, create the image locally and then upload the manually .wim file (when you add an image to WDS, you can browse for UNC and shared paths, like “\\referenceclient\C$\image\referenceimage.wim”; no need for moving files from servers).
Hope it helps,
Cheers!
Augusto

By: JW

JW — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:17:25 +0000

First of all great guide, however my WDS server hangs at Part II, Step 9
Select the option “Load the image to a WDS server”; put the name of the server and click on “Connect” +

When I click “connect” I never get prompted for my credentials. Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:50:30 +0000

Hello there Troy,
I haven’t noticed that on XP images. But yes, I assume that is related with the XP image being prepared in a non-native way.
You can still mount the image that you uploaded, delete the file from the file system and then add it again to WDS.
It is a simple procedure, check the post I made about how to add drivers to Windows PE… you only need the part where you mount, commit and unmount the image (using WAIK 1.1 and 2.0):
http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/02/28/step-by-step-adding-hyper-v-integration-components-to-windows-pe-using-waik-20-tools/
Hope it helps
Cheers!

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:41:43 +0000

Hi Augusto

I have a quick question about this portion of WDS.

I’m capturing images of XP systems at the moment. In your part II you mention that you select the location where the image is temporarily installed and that it doesn’t get included in the image (point 8, part II).

My images actually do include the xxx.wim file.

Is there anything that I’m doing incorrectly or is removing the .wim file ‘fixed’ when imaging a Vista system?

Cheers

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