Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Creating Discover Images
In cases when PXE boot is not supported on the system or on the network, it might be necessary to use bootable media to start a WDS imaging process. This can be accomplished with a WDS discover image. A discover image is created from an existing WDS boot image that contains Windows PE and the WDS client, but can be stored on removable media making it easier to deploy images to older systems or on heterogeneous networks that have PXE issues. To create a discover image, follow these steps:
1. Open the WDS Management console on the WDS server.
2. When the Windows Deployment Services console opens, in the tree pane expand the Servers node, expand the WDS server, and select the Boot Images node.
3. In the Tasks pane, locate ...
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