Bink reported that Microsoft is working on a server version of the BDD 2007 toolkit. It will be available in Q1 2008. It will support W2003 and Longhorn. It will also integrate with Configuration Manager 2007 (note that Windows Deployment Services is integrated with CM 2007 Beta 2 for desktop deployment).
There will be a series of beta releases. We will see an early release this summer for Longhorn Beta 3 and CM 2007 which should also RTM around then. Beta 2 will be out around Q4.
My gut is telling me that this will be the successor to the little known Automated Deployment Services (ADS). I’ve used this image based solution before for deploying servers. It’s complicated but very powerful if you choose to use the full functionality of the product.
Source: Bink