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WDS

Windows Deployment Services.


Software platform and technology that allows you to preform automated network-based installations based on a network-based boot and operating system, or a local device on the network.

Operating systems that can be deployed via WDS on Server 2012

XP


Vista


Windows 7


Windows 8


Server 2003


Server 2008


Server 2012

Image File

Snapshot of a computer's hard drive taken at a particular moment in time. Contains OS, updates, applications and configuration changes.

PXE

Preboot Execution Environment


Allows for booting from the network. WDS requires this, so as to allow clients to connect to a network resource for boot instructions and image.

Windows PE

Windows Preinstallation Environment


A WDS client boots via PXE, connects to the WDS. WDS instructs client to boot, and sends the image for, Windows PE.



This is a limited version of the OS, with enough functionality to load and install the a *actual* desire image from the network.

Version of Windows PE that's based on Windows 8 OS

Windows PE 4.0

Two roles to install on a new WDS server to give it WDS capabilities

Deployment Server



Transport Server

Two types of images you must create to use WDS

Boot Image (Windows PE)


Starts the OS installation



Install Image


Contains the OS that WDS installs


WIM

Windows Imaging Format


Image format, unlike ISO, that allows a file structure to be stored within a single WIM file (database).



Image format used by WDS