Systems

Adding drivers to a .WIM offline

I have my WDS server all set up, but the Optiplex 790’s that we have unfortunately do not have NIC drivers with the default catalogues in the Windows 7 install CD. When I was creating my deployment boot images, I based them off a clean Windows 7 SP1 install. This caused problems when I was […]

Systems

Windows Deployment Server won’t start on a fresh install

Strange thing happened: I installed WDS on a server 2008 r2 machine which had just a base install. The installation zipped through in about 15 seconds. No icon showed up in the administrative tools menu, and my event viewer had this error: An error occurred while trying to start the Windows Deployment Services server.   […]

  • August 29, 2011
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Success!

Machine booted and joined itself to the domain according to the XML. Epic win!