Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Creating Multicast Images
A feature of WDS is that images can be deployed to servers and workstations using multicast transmissions. For multicast imaging to work properly, the network devices that connect the WDS multicast clients to the WDS server providing the multicast transmission must support and allow multicast traffic. Creating a multicast transmission is a very straightforward process and can be created within a few minutes, if the WDS server already contains tested boot and install images. To create a multicast transmission, follow these steps:
1. Open the WDS Management console on the WDS server.
2. In the tree pane, expand the Servers node, and then select and expand the WDS server.
3. Right-click Multicast Transmissions node and ...
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