{"id":25,"date":"2014-05-07T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/?p=25"},"modified":"2014-05-28T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T15:41:22","slug":"windows-deployment-services-on-windows-server-2012-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Windows Deployment Services on Windows Server 2012 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing around with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) on Windows Server 2012 R2 and decided I need to my client machines to perform a PXE boot instead of booting from a CD, which takes quite awhile.\u00a0 Configuring Windows Deployment Server is a fairly easy process, especially if you all ready have a bootable WIM created from using MDT.\u00a0 These instructions assume you have already setup MDT on your server and that your server is a member of a Windows Domain.\u00a0 The basic process is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add the Windows Deployment Server (WDS)\u00a0Role from Server Manager on the server you wish to boot from.\u00a0 You will need to restart the server after this role is added.<\/li>\n<li>Open a command line to initialize your server with the command <strong>wdsutil \/Initialize-Server \/RemInst:&#8221;C:\\DeploymentShare\\boot&#8221;,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>assuming you are using the default directory from your MDT installation.\u00a0 If you encounter an error during the initialize step, you may need to issue the command <strong>wdsutil \/Uninitialize-Server <\/strong>so that you can fix the error and then try to initialize the server again.<\/li>\n<li>Next you will add the WIM you wish to boot from with the command <strong>wdsutil \/Add-Image \/ImageFile:&#8221;c:\\DeploymentShare\\Boot\\LiteTouchPE_x64.wim&#8221; \/ImageType:Boot<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Check Services to make for sure the Windows Deployment Services Server is running.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Assuming everything worked correctly, you should know be able to connect a computer to the same network as the server and PXE boot from the client to the server without the need of a flash drive or optical disk.\u00a0 You may need to enable PXE boot on the client machine, or change the boot order of the devices.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has a web page that includes all of the syntax for the wdsutil command available at <a title=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc771206.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc771206.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc771206.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing around with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) on Windows Server 2012 R2 and decided I need to my client machines to perform a PXE boot instead of booting from a CD, which takes quite awhile.\u00a0 Configuring Windows Deployment Server is a fairly easy process, especially if you all ready have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinjinsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}