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Eric Giroux User is Offline

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12/08/2007 10:05 AM
I'm looking for a starting point for WDS and maybe some recommendations on what other shops have done. My goal is to be able to load what is currently my OSD Install CD ISO over the network to avoid having to re-burn build CD's and redistribute them every time a NIC driver updats. I've got 5 primary geographic locations where a bulk of my machines are built from a local DP. Would I have to have WDS on a server in each location to be able to boot over the network at each location? When it comes to integration with AD, is there a lot of work that has to be done or is it just a schema update? The Active Directory management team is separeate from the workstation management team at my company. Implementing anything that requires changes to AD is a major effort so I want to have all my ducks in a row before I move forward with this. Thanks.

Mike Dzikowski User is Offline

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01/02/2008 11:14 PM
What I think you could do is setup a local WDS Server at each remote branch. Upload your boot images on each machine. And you could use this variable in your bootstrap.ini DeployRoot=\\%WDSSERVER%\sharename Another thing you may want to do is to replicate your DP and SQL DB to these branches. I have yet to really do this, but I read this artice in one of the TechNet issues: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/11/ExtendingBDD/?loc=en Mike Dzikowski

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