How to deploy windows xp professional using wds tips. Also included is a wim file for deploying over the network using wds for. This will take a few minutes to copy to the wds server. I have got xp working well with wds but have a strange issue with windows 7 at the minute. This tutorial covers 4 main steps to successfully deploying xp images with windows deployment services wds. In server roles check the windows deployment services and click add features when popup a window for the features that must included.
To run the sysprep i inserted the xp professional sp2 disk and browsed to the deploy. In the following install instructions, please start at the step after the mention of clicking the download button. Open wds and on the left pane select install images step 2. Capturing sysprepped xp image from client to wds server. Open wds and on the left pane select install images. Finally, in wds i created a master image group called windows xp image step 6 sysprep the master image. Windows deployment services wds is included in the windows automated installation kit windows aik and in windows server 2003 sp2. Make sure to chose yes, fully automate the installation in the initial wizard or your image might not work. Right click install image group and select add install image.
How to deploy unattended xp using wds server youtube. Fill in the appropriate responses in the windows that follow, regarding keyboard locale options, user password, os to be installed, location to install, etc. It supports imaging windows xp through windows 10 and linux, using both unicast and multicast technologies. Deploy a windows xp image from wds unattended msfn. Once complete i opened wds and expanded servers server name install image. Download service pack 2 for windows xp professional, x64 edition. I have been messing with wds on my 2003 server as i was used to using ris in the past. One image would include adobe creative suite cs3 and the other wouldnt. Boot up the pc that you want to image and press f12 to enter boot menu select onboard network controller and press enter press f12 again to boot from network select windows vista pe x86 and press enter from the command prompt type wdscapture. All other software on the images would be the same.
Acronis snap deploy, windows deployment services, etc. Open windows deployment services wds console, expand server name and select boot images. In the next post we will look at steps to deploy an image using wds and. Download windows xp mode from official microsoft download center. This is an imaging cloning method that allows you to clone lab and campus computers without using any floppy drives, cd. How to deploy windows xp professional using windows. On the image file page, click browse, and navigate to the modified. Click install and wait until finish the installation.
Deploy captured xp image from wds server to client machine. To create an xp image again you should have an xp machine with whatever configurations and applications you require on there. Choose browse, and browse to the folder that contains the image you captured previously usually found in remoteinstall\ images \captured images if you followed the previous guide. Acronis snap deploy, windows deployment services, deploystudio, etc. Press f2 to access the bios and make sure that pxeboot is enabled on the nic. When our ris server died over the school summer holidays i decided to look at implementing wds and using images to deploy one of two universal xpsp3 images. Step by step how to windows deployment services wds in. Windows deployment services will allow you to image xp machines across the network.
I can see the boot image when pxebooted on the destination workstation but i can not see the install wix xp image. Windows deployment services is a technology from microsoft for. It supports imaging windows xp through windows 10 and linux, using both unicast and multicast. On the server it shows up in wds and in the remote install directory. This capture image will help to boot the computer to capture computers os for further deployment of operating system to other computers either client or. In select features click next click next again leave the role services deployment server and transport server selected and click next. Configure client to boot from network card and sysprepping xp for automatic installation. It supports imaging windows xp through windows 10, linux, and os x, using both.
Deploying windows 7 with wds is very simple, deploying xp is also simple but maybe not quite as straight forward and fluid. So ive set up a wds server and it seemed to go quite smoothly. When i hit f12 on a core2 duo laptop which is definitely able to run x64 as it has. Browse to the image and click ok to upload the image to wds. A client who we recently did a wds windows 7 install for, needed to image a couple of windows xp machines, they had some. I want to deploy unattended installs of windows xp using pxe and ris wds throughout my domain from different sites that require no user intervention outside of renaming the pc once it is up and running will use dameware to do so i want to use the universal imaging utility to build the final image, so that it is hardware independant. All of my sites are connected via an internal network cloud. Clonedeploy is a free open source solution for computer cloning imaging. In the windows boot manager choose xp deployment boot image or whatever name you chose for it in step one. Using wds to deploy sccm images without pxeenabled dps. Acronis snap deploy is an os deployment and disk imaging tool that enables. Next, in wds i right clicked winpe and clicked capture image. It is an alternative for other solutions such as symantec ghost solution suite, acronis snap deploy, windows deployment services, etc.
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