He reports that his WDS server can easily handle around simultaneous image downloads without maxing out performance or bandwidth. He also estimates that if he ever needed to simultaneously reimage all clients on his network that he would probably need three of these WDS servers to do this efficiently.
You can take that and run with it if you like, but always remember what Ronald Reagan said: "Trust but verify! Mitch Tulloch is a seven-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional MVP award and widely recognized expert on Windows administration, deployment and virtualization.
The following sample files are also available to help automate some MDT deployment tasks. This guide does not use these files, but they are made available here so you can see how some tasks can be automated with Windows PowerShell. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info.
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NET Framework. Other Deployment methods — Autoattended. As all of these functions are part of the Windows Server platform, it is cost-effective to use them. DHCP can also be offered by a non-Windows server. See the following links for more details on DHCP. Step 2. On the Before you begin page, click on next — Choose Role-based or Feature-based installation and click on Next.
If you have multiple servers, select the right server from the server pool. For me, I have just one server and it is automatically selected below. Note: When the WDS role is selected, this will prompt a popup as shown below. For more about how to configure the state migration point, see State migration point. For more information about how to capture and restore user state, see Manage user state.
To use Configuration Manager reports for OS deployments, install and configure a reporting point. For more information, see Introduction to reporting. The Operating System Deployment Manager security role is a built-in role that you can't change. However, you can copy the role, make changes, and then save these changes as a new custom security role. Here are some of the permissions that apply directly to OS deployments:. For more information, see Create custom security roles.
Use security scopes to provide administrative users with access to the securable objects used in OS deployments, such as OS and boot images, driver packages, and task sequence packages. For more information, see Security scopes. WDS is included in the server OS.
The WDS installation on the server requires that the administrator is a member of the local Administrators group. All Windows domain and forest configurations support WDS. If the provider is installed on a remote server, install WDS on the site server and the remote provider.
If you plan to co-host the distribution point on a server running DHCP, consider the following configuration issues:. You need a functioning DHCP server with an active scope. Or, you can use the following procedure to configure the WDS server to listen on a different port.
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