1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:04,250 I'm in my Windows Deployment Services server, and I'm 2 00:00:04,250 --> 00:00:07,470 going to add the Windows Deployment Services role. So I'm 3 00:00:07,470 --> 00:00:09,260 going to go to Server Manager, 4 00:00:09,260 --> 00:00:12,940 Add roles and features, and I get a wizard that pops up. 5 00:00:12,940 --> 00:00:19,650 I'll click Next, and continue clicking Next until I get to my roles, and 6 00:00:19,650 --> 00:00:24,380 I'll choose Windows Deployment Services. Choose to add the features, click 7 00:00:24,380 --> 00:00:28,820 Next, and just continue until we get to Install. 8 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:32,640 Now I do want to leave the Role Services that you see here for Deployment Server 9 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,090 and Transport Server, because we only have the one server. 10 00:00:36,090 --> 00:00:37,240 If you have multiple servers, 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,710 you can split those roles up, and click Install. 12 00:00:41,710 --> 00:00:46,140 And the installation is complete. 13 00:00:46,140 --> 00:00:50,030 I can now go into Tools and choose Windows Deployment 14 00:00:50,030 --> 00:00:54,170 Services, and get started in my server. 15 00:00:54,170 --> 00:00:58,030 Just installing the role for Windows Deployment Services isn't enough. 16 00:00:58,030 --> 00:01:01,890 We have to go in and configure the server so it can get started. 17 00:01:01,890 --> 00:01:05,110 I'm going to right‑click and choose to configure server. As you can 18 00:01:05,110 --> 00:01:09,380 see, the "Services is not configured" warning comes at the top. I'm 19 00:01:09,380 --> 00:01:13,530 going to click Next. Now we have the option for Integrated with Active 20 00:01:13,530 --> 00:01:15,640 Directory or Standalone server. 21 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,880 If this server was a standalone server, 22 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,680 I could choose that, but then I would miss out on a lot of 23 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,400 the security and additional features I can get with 24 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,210 Integrated with Active Directory. 25 00:01:25,210 --> 00:01:27,390 Since this server is a member of a domain, 26 00:01:27,390 --> 00:01:30,140 I can go ahead and choose that and click Next. 27 00:01:30,140 --> 00:01:34,030 Now I want to choose where I want to put the remote installation folder, 28 00:01:34,030 --> 00:01:38,590 and this is going to be used by us when we boot up from a computer without 29 00:01:38,590 --> 00:01:42,880 an operating system on it, so we can download the files needed in order to 30 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,100 install that custom operating system. 31 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:46,420 I'll just choose the default. 32 00:01:46,420 --> 00:01:48,650 It's going to give me a warning about putting it on the 33 00:01:48,650 --> 00:01:51,530 same volume as the operating system. 34 00:01:51,530 --> 00:01:54,670 I'll just go ahead and choose yes and continue. Next, we have 35 00:01:54,670 --> 00:01:57,600 the option for response by client computers. 36 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,900 You have the default, Do not respond, 37 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:03,440 Respond only to known client, or Respond to all client computers. 38 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,950 Obviously, the Do not respond is not what we want. 39 00:02:05,950 --> 00:02:09,700 Ultimately, we want the client computers to get those operating systems, so 40 00:02:09,700 --> 00:02:13,870 that's not the best option. Responding only to known computers adds 41 00:02:13,870 --> 00:02:16,150 additional steps, and it doesn't always work right. 42 00:02:16,150 --> 00:02:19,660 So really the best option here is to respond to all client computers, 43 00:02:19,660 --> 00:02:23,580 but even if you don't know who they are, and to not 44 00:02:23,580 --> 00:02:25,120 require the administrator approval. 45 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,440 So how do we keep this secure? 46 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:33,000 What we do is we put all this into its own subnet. Windows Deployment 47 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,530 Services does not work well by going from one subnet to another; it 48 00:02:37,530 --> 00:02:40,570 requires access control lists in order for that to work. 49 00:02:40,570 --> 00:02:43,610 So if you put this in its own subnet, no other computers are 50 00:02:43,610 --> 00:02:45,640 going to be able to communicate with it anyway. 51 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:49,480 So, we'll go ahead and choose that option and click Next. Now it's copying 52 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:53,900 all the files needed for Windows Deployment Services. Next, I have the option 53 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:57,010 to add the images to the server, so I definitely want to do that. So I'll 54 00:02:57,010 --> 00:03:00,520 click Finish, and a new wizard pops up. 55 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:06,740 It's asking for the image file. So I'll browse to that on my DVD. 56 00:03:06,740 --> 00:03:09,930 It's going to be in the sources folder for Windows Server 57 00:03:09,930 --> 00:03:13,240 2022 and also for older ones as well. 58 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:17,250 Here, we have the option to Create an image group, and this is a 59 00:03:17,250 --> 00:03:22,930 really good idea because you can organize your images either by 60 00:03:22,930 --> 00:03:27,700 departments such as Accounting, HR, IT, etc., or you can organize them, 61 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:30,640 say, by the version of Windows that you're putting on, 62 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:34,400 Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, 63 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,040 Windows 11, that kind of thing. 64 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,840 I'm going to choose that option, 65 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:45,760 but you can choose whatever works best for you, and I'll click Next. And I 66 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,030 like what I see there, so I'll go ahead and click Next, and now what it's 67 00:03:49,030 --> 00:03:52,530 doing is it's copying all the images from my DVD. 68 00:03:52,530 --> 00:03:56,060 There are two important W‑I‑M files, or WIM files, that are 69 00:03:56,060 --> 00:03:58,090 needed for Windows Deployment Services. 70 00:03:58,090 --> 00:04:01,040 One is going to be the Boot Images, as you see at the top of 71 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,750 the screen; the other is the Install Images. 72 00:04:03,750 --> 00:04:08,520 The Boot Images are used basically for the computers to connect 73 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,580 into Windows Deployment Services, and then the Installation 74 00:04:11,580 --> 00:04:15,250 Images is where we're going to create our custom images that can 75 00:04:15,250 --> 00:04:18,890 then be used by our clients. 76 00:04:18,890 --> 00:04:19,770 The images were added. 77 00:04:19,770 --> 00:04:25,100 I'll click Finish. I can go to Boot Images, and we can see there's the 78 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:30,750 boot image that got copied over from our Windows DVD, and we can see 79 00:04:30,750 --> 00:04:37,680 that's the Setup image. Now I can go to Install Images, and there's my 80 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,690 Windows Server 2022 installation image. 81 00:04:40,690 --> 00:04:49,000 Windows Deployment Services is now ready to accept a boot image and custom images for automated deployment.