The key to remember is that a boot image is used to PXE boot into a Windows PE.
Capture boot images boot into the Windows Capture Wizard to capture an Install image
from a syspreped reference system. You can use an Install image to install Windows Server
2008 on a system. Discover boot images allow you to capture images from a system that
doesn??™t support PXE boot. Once loaded, you can create answer files using the Windows SIM
to automate as little or as much of the installation process as you want. This ultimate level of
flexibility is what makes WDS so powerful and what makes the new unattend XML format
so much more powerful the collection of answer and configuration files you used with previous
Windows Server builds. However, it is possible to deploy previous Windows Server
and Workstation builds using WDS, but the process won??™t be nearly as seamless.
Creating the ultimate rollout and deployment strategy for your organization will
bear heavily on how well you can take advantage of these new tools. The underlying
setup process for Windows Server 2008 is a huge leap from what it was even with
Windows Server 2003. In fact, it may benefit you to unlearn some of your previous
Windows deployment techniques and absorb some of the new terminology and concepts.
The Windows Setup that is part of Windows Server 2008 is much more component driven
than ever before and allows for a very granular definition of each option you want to
enable.
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