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Those of you who work as a network administrator and have to
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or constant reformatting are surely familiar with RIS, or Remote
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Installation Services. RIS is a great way to easily deploy images
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across a network, and best of all it's a free program included with
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Windows Server! However, I have experienced great pains in the
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past dealing with troublesome network drivers (Damn Intel Pro
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image. In order to add the appropriate network driver to your
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image you had to create the dreaded \$oem$\$1\Drivers\Nic series
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of folders that RIS could recognize and then modify the .sif file. Of
course, this is easier said than done, and not all network drivers
worked will with RIS. Well, for me those days are gone, now that
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windows has released WDS or Windows Deployment Services. WDS
is the new, updated version of RIS that was designed for Vista ICT Freak

deployment from the upcoming Longhorn Server which is to be MS Newsgroups

released later this year. WDS is included in the newly released Bink
Windows 2003 SP2, or it can be downloaded independently from
Microsoft. Not planning on running Vista in your organization? No
problem, WDS works great with XP Pro as well! WDS uses a new
format for images called a WIM, which when used with Vista is
hardware independent. That's right, from now on as far as Vista is
concerned you do not have to worry about hardware abstraction
layers anymore! You can also service the image offline, including
adding and deleting optional components, updates, and drivers,
without fundamentally creating a new image. In the following
steps I will describe how to use WDS to deploy XP Pro images
across your network from a Windows 2003 server:

> Download the Microsoft Vista AIK or Automated Installation Kit

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> Burn the Image to disc or mount with Daemon tools which can be
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> Right click and Explore the AIK Disc ADV: De Computable 100
> Open the WDS folder and install the appropriate WDS version: 64 Ultimate Software 'entert' software
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PXE boot into these PE os environments to install the sysprepped
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> Start WDS and follow the configuration steps listed below: WEBWERELD

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1. On the Start menu, click Administrative Tools, and then click
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then browse to select the computer to manage.
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> Now in the WDS MMC right click the "Boot Images" folder and
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> Browse to the location you saved the WinPE we extracted earlier: Oscar
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> Select to add both images and once finished restart WDS and a
few boot images will now appear in the "Boot Images" folder, but
the one we will concentrate on is the "Windows Vista PE" image.
> Right click the "Windows Vista PE" image and select "Create
Capture Boot Image" This is the PE environment we will use to
move our sysprep image from the workstation to the server.
> Name the capture image and select a place to save it and click
Next
> Now right click the "Boot Images" folder and select to add
another boot image
> Navigate to the location you just saved you capture image and
import it to WDS
> You will now see your capture image in the "Boot Images" folder,
and this means we are now ready to get our workstation ready to
be sysprepped!
> Install Windows XP Pro on the workstation along with whatever
software you would like on the image to be deployed such as
Office 2003, Acrobat etc.
> Create a folder in the root of the C: drive called sysprep
> Put the Windows XP Cd in the drive and navigate to the Support
folder
> Extract "Deploy" to the sysprep folder on the root of C; that you
just made
> Go to the sysprep folder and double click "setupmgr.exe" to
create the answer file needed for an automatic installation on
Windows.
> In the setup manager fill in whatever info you would like such as
registration key, default settings etc. This will automatically place
the unattended answer file in the appropriate place for Windows
to retrieve the information during install.
> Go to the sysprep folder on the root of C: and double click the
sysprep executable

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> IMPORTANT: In order to properly image your computer to the

WDS server you must remove ALL sid information, so tick the
box "Use Mini Setup" and click the "RESEAL" button
> Sysprep now does it's thing and shuts the computer down.
Assuming your workstation to be imaged is configured to PXE boot
restart and press F12 and select Network Boot (If not go into the
BIOS and configure the workstation to PXE boot prior to this step)
> The workstation will now get a DHCP address from the WDS
server and a text-based selection screen will pop up.
> Select the capture image you created earlier
> You are now booted into a Vista PE environment. Follow the
steps to image the appropriate volume and choose a location to
save the image on the WDS server.
> Grab a coffee and wait for the image to be moved to the server
> We have now successfully imaged an XP workstation and saved it
on the WDS server as a WIM image format!
> On the WDS server right click "Install Images" and select to add
an install image
> Browse to the location you saved the sysprepped image we just
uploaded to the server and select it.
> The XP Pro image is now located in the "Install Images" folder
> Now go to a bare metal PC with the same HAL as the image
machine (HAL independence is only a feature of Vista images) and
PXE boot
> Now select the "Microsoft Windows Vista PE", NOT the capture
image! We do not want to capture an image in this step, we want
to install one!
> A Vista PE install environment opens and you can now select the
XP Pro image to install

And that's it! Since we are using a Vista PE 2.0 environment that
has all modern network drivers slipstreamed we no longer have to
worry about adding the drivers just to install the image. What's
more, you may have noticed a "Add Drivers" link in the PE
environment install page, which can be used to automatically add
drivers to the install image by CD or USB key! No more
modifying .sif files, no more driver directories on the flat RIS
image!

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