{"id":10094,"date":"2009-11-29T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10094"},"modified":"2009-11-29T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T16:51:25","slug":"playing-with-w2008-r2-wds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10094","title":{"rendered":"Playing With W2008 R2 WDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been doing the last bits of preparing for my Windows User Group session on deploying Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clicktoattend.com\/invitation.aspx?code=142940\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and LiveMeeting webcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemeeting.com\/cc\/usergroups\/join?id=DeployingW7andR2&amp;role=attend&amp;pw=w3ZDG%29%21%2F4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) for this Friday (December 4th, 09:30 GMT \u2013 it\u2019ll be recorded).&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been trying out a few of the features of Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Deployment Services (WDS), a free OS image capture\/deployment solution from Microsoft.&#160; Some of the new features are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Driver additions to the boot image are really easy.<\/li>\n<li>Setting up multicast is really easy too.<\/li>\n<li>Clients can join a multicast midway and then get the rest of the stream afterwards.<\/li>\n<li>You can configure a multicast to only initiate when a session has enough computers or at a certain date\/time.<\/li>\n<li>You can allow no computers or all computers access to WDS.&#160; <\/li>\n<li>You can allow new computers to access WDS two ways.&#160; The first (old) one is to pre-build computer accounts in Active Directory with the GUID\/MAC of the physical machine to build.&#160; Or, you can delay a boot up until the end user calls the helpdesk and gets and administrator to approve their session in the WDS console.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been doing the last bits of preparing for my Windows User Group session on deploying Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (details here and LiveMeeting webcast here) for this Friday (December 4th, 09:30 GMT \u2013 it\u2019ll be recorded).&#160; I\u2019ve been trying out a few of the features of Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10094\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playing With W2008 R2 WDS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[174,105],"class_list":["post-10094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-deployment","tag-wds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}