WDS Boot Manager Timeout
Monday, March 8th, 2010 Posted in Microsoft, WDS, Work | No Comments »If you use WDS on a regular basis, you know that after PXE booting, WDS loads the Windows Boot Manager to allow you to choose which boot image you’d like to boot with. You’ll also have undoubtedly been a victim ...
A Tale of Build Numbers and Deployment
Friday, March 5th, 2010 Posted in MDT, Microsoft, WDS, Windows 7, Work | No Comments »I’d just like you to know that I’ve been pulling my hair out all week. I’m practically bald now. We’ve been using MDT 2010 for quite some time and I’ve been super happy with it. Until this week. So, ...
Automatically Update MDT 2010 Boot Images in WDS
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in MDT, WDS, Work | No Comments »I’ve been pretty busy lately getting Microsoft Deployment Toolkit set up here at the office. We’re going to use MDT to deploy Windows 7 without creating images. On top of that, we’re going to use WDS to serve up the ...
WDS’s Service Control Point
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in WDS | No Comments »Today I was alerted to an issue in Operations Manager on one of my WDS servers: Log Name: System/Application Source: BINLSVC Date: Date Time: Time Event ID: 1803 Description: An error occurred while attempting to locate the Service Control Point object for this ...
Shift+F10
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in WDS | No Comments »For future reference, you can press Shift+F10 to reach a command line while PXE booted to a WDS boot image. This is useful to inject one-time drivers or see ipconfig information. At least for me. Go figure.
Injecting NIC Drivers into a WDS Boot Image
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, WDS | No Comments »We're switching to a new laptop here at the office, and this new laptop uses a NIC driver that is not included in Server 2008 Standard's boot.wim. Naturally, instead of rebuilding the entire WIM (and reinventing the wheel), I decided ...
WDS and PXE
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in WDS | 2 Comments »A post that I wrote in March for another blog: We've been trying for a day or two to get Windows Deployment Services up and running over PXE to eliminate our need for boot disks to image with, but ran ...