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Windows 8.1 Deployment: From the ground
up Deploy The Image
0 Pierre Roman 17 Apr 2014 12:36 AM
Hello Folks,
This is the last post in this series. In previous posts we covered
Generate an inventory of our environment
Setup our workbench to build our image
Started building our image by importing the OS and Drivers
Finalized the Image with Packages and Application
Today well use the image we already created and we will deploy it to our XP test machine and well prepare the
Windows Deployment Server to deploy it using PXE boot.
There is one issue with this plan. Some of the tools in the ADK for Windows 8.1 dont support Windows XP. (User
State Migration Tool version 6.3 and BOOTSECT.EXE). So what can you do? I'll summarize here but Michael
Niehaus wrote about this in detail in his blog here. the just of it is that you need
1. Update some scripts from customized ones (see Michaels post for the files)
2. Install the ADK for Windows 8 on a separate Windows 7 or Windows 8 system so you can copy 2 components
from it.
3. Copy the USMT files and the BOOTSECT.EXE from the system with the ADK for Windows 8 to the deployment
share.
4. Update the deployment share to rebuild the image with the files we just copied.
Now we are ready to deploy our image. First we will setup Windows Deployment Services to deploy the image using
a network-based installation.
1- In server manager on our DC01 well install the Windows Deployment Service and the Management tools
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2- When prompted by the install wizard ensure that you select both the deployment server and the Transport
server. The transport server is used to create multicast namespaces that transmit data. The deployment server is
used to configure and remotely install Windows operating systems and it depends on the core parts of Transport
Server.
Complete the wizard and finish installing WDS.
3- Once this is done you need to use the Windows Deployment Services Management Console in the Tools menu and
configure the WDS service.
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4- In the Configuration Wizard, Select Integrated with Active Directory in the Install Option page.
5- and in the Remote Installation Folder location pick a location where WDS will store the boot files and images. In
our case we put that on the D: drive.
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6- The Proxy DHCP Server page is where we will identify if your WDS is co-existing with your DHCP server. In our
case its all on the DC so we ensure that both check boxes are selected to enable the coexistence.
7- The PXE initial settings allows you to decide how you want to respond to machines requesting boot images and
installation. For our lab we selected Respond to all client computers (without requiring administrator approval).
after that just complete the wizard and finish the configuration.
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8- our WDS server is installed and configured. Its now time to import the boot images from our MDT image so they
can be deployed through WDS. right-click Boot images and select Add boot image.
9- Browse to D:\DeploymentShare\Boot\ and select LitetouchPE_x86.wim for the 32bit image. In our case we
imported both 32 and 64 bit boot wim files.
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Complete the wizard by giving your boot images proper Names and descriptions. (very useful if you have multiple
images) and complete the wizard.
10- The last thing to do for the WDS server is to start the service by right-clicking the server and under All-Tasks
click Start.
Thats it. WDS is ready to serve up your MDT image as noted in the following screen captures of machines with no
OS, booting from the network to install the image.
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From a Windows XP machine in our environment all we need to do is execute the BDD_Autorun script from
\\DC01\deploymentShare$ and follow the instructions to deploy a fresh version of Window 8 and retain the files and
profiles store locally. (the BDD_ scripts names are leftover from when MDT was called Business Desktop Deployment
Toolkit)
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So youre ready to experiment. Download Windows Server 2012 R2 and create your lab environment.
(Instructions can be found here) to experiment. we did not go in depth on customizing the deployment and
automating it but there are lots of online resources to help you with that.
Now you have one less excuse for not deploying a modern OS.
Have fun!
Cheers!
Pierre Roman | Technology Evangelist
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