Windows Deployment Services

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The Windows Deployment Services , shortly WDS ( Engl. , Windows Deployment Services), the successor to the with Windows 2000 introduced RIS service ( Remote Installation Services ). The WDS services offer both the old RIS functionality and a new image process developed for Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7 in compatibility mode (mixed mode) .

advantages

  • Fast for mass rollouts
  • Future Microsoft installation method
  • Graphical user interface
  • Hotfixes, applications, drivers, and not by group policy influenced settings can be in the Image integrate
  • ISO boot images for computers
  • Multicast transmissions when used on Windows Server 2008 . This means that new clients can join the transmission at any time (the server simply starts the transmission again at the end until all clients are refueled)

disadvantage

  • Boot time to image selection takes approx. 2-3 minutes
  • More network traffic if individual computers are reinstalled (approx. 800 MB for a Windows XP basic installation)

Known bugs

  • The implementation of the program from English to other languages ​​is incomplete. For example, texts are cut off in some dialog windows. To create computer accounts via the WDS console, the "Domain Admins" group is always used instead of the language-neutral well known SID "S-1-5-domain-512", which only exists if the domain was created on an English-speaking Windows .