I’ve been playing with Windows Deployment Services for rolling out Windows 7 Professional (from Server 2008 R2) over the last couple of days. Aside from a missing NIC driver everything seems to be fairly straight forward.
Plenty of documentation already exists on this subject, but I spent the good part of a day wading through it, so here I present a “get you up and running quickly” list of docs:
- Technet Step-by-Step (for Server 2003)
- Sysprep Windows 7
- Better Instructions for Discover Images (i.e. for non-pxe hardware)
Of course this set of articles is meant to just by a quick and dirty start… you’ll have to read deeper if you want definitive instructions on unattended remote installs. But not too much deeper. WindowsNetworking.com has the start of a set of articles on Windows 7 deployment which will probably help you out with that.
This is for as much my reference as anyone else.
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Thanks for the link back. I would also highly recommend getting the Windows 7 Resource Kit book. It is priceless! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735627002?ie=UTF8&tag=brlejaitbl-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0735627002