8. Click Close when the installation completes.
9. Choose Start | Administrative Tools | Windows Deployment Services to open
the Windows Deployment Services Management console.
10. Expand Windows Deployment Services under Console Root.
11. Right-click the server name and select Configure Server from the context menu.
12. Review the information on the Welcome screen; then click Next.
13. Enter the path or click Browse to select where the operating system images will
be stored, as shown in Figure 5-1. This must be an NTFS partition. In practice,
you should specify a path to a nonsystem partition since you should keep
your OS images separate from your main OS system files to help optimize
performance and backups. Click Next.
Figure 5-1. Specifying the location of the remote installation folder
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14. On the PXE Server Initial Settings screen, select Respond to All (Known and
Unknown) Client Computers, as shown in Figure 5-2.
15. Click Finish.
16. If prompted, uncheck Add Images to Windows Deployment Services Now, and
then click Finish.
WDS PROPERTIES
Once you??™ve completed the installation and performed your initial configuration, you need
to start creating and loading your OS images. Before moving onto that, let??™s explore the various
WDS properties that can be queried or set depending on your desired configuration.
Figure 5-2.
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