My personal blog about pre-installation and other topics

WDS for cross-platform (32 bit WinPE to install a 64 bit OS) deployments

Having a WDS server running already? How about using it to deploy 64 bit versions of Windows Vista and Server 2008 as well? The 64 bit versions of Windows Vista SP1 and Server 2008 can be deployed using a 32 bit WinPE. This means that you only need to

A guide to use WDS for OEM pre-installations… not really, but some good tips and samples

This is not a complete WDS guide as the title already indicates, but I want to share some examples and best practices. The generic WDS install guide can be found here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/7d837d88-6d8e-420c-b68f-a5b4baeb52481033.mspx?mfr=true

WDS Client DHCP issues… Here is one solution

I was on the road last Friday and help one of my partners to setup a network based deployment for his PC production floor. It all worked fine until we hit this error message: Great :-( So the first assumption was that the network card driver is missing