Hey guys, welcome back this is Bernardo from the BTNHD.
And today is all about creating a smart deploy WDS media within Windows Server 2019.
And let's get into it.
Now the first thing that we need to do is install WDS.
Now if you have a WDS server within your infrastructure, you're good to go.
Okay, you could just fast forward the video and get to the part of creating your WDS within
smart deploy if you don't, we are going to click on my start menu.
We are going to launch up Server Manager.
Once Server Manager is up and running we are going to click on Manage.
We are going to click on Add Roles and Features.
From here we are going to click on Next Next again.
Next again, within server roles, we need to locate Windows Deployment Services.
Click on it.
You're going to click add features from here.
Click Next.
Next, Next, I'm gonna leave all the roles services as the default click Next.
And then install is going to start installing once it's completed, you're going to get this
and you're done.
Now don't get me wrong you don't really need to install WDS where the smart deploy application
is installed.
I like to just keep everything in one machine because you know, I don't have the resources
you know, I don't have like a bunch of physical machines to install WDS, smart deploy and
other good stuff, right.
But if you already have a virtual machine or a physical machine, that's housing WDS,
you don't have to worry now once you have your WDS services installed, we're going to
click on Start.
Within start, we are going to open up your Windows Administrative Tools.
We're going to go all the way to the bottom until we find Windows Deployment Services.
We are going to click on that.
Once it loads up, we are going to open up the servers node, you're going to see a nice
little warning sign right next to your server name.
Don't freak out, because we need to configure it.
So we are going to select our Windows Deployment Services node.
And we're going to right click on it and click on configure server.
You're going to get the wizard so we are going to click next here, you have two options for
this video I'm going to do a standalone server, click Next.
The default path is going to be the C drive so I'm going to leave it as the
default but you are able to change it click
Next, you're going to get a nice little warning if you leave it as the C drive.
best practice is to move the remote install folder somewhere else now in the C drive that's
a no no.
But for now I'm going to click
yes for your PXE server an issue settings pick your flavor I'm going to pick response
to all clients computers known unknown
within my environment.
And I'm going to click on Next
is going to start configuring the Windows Deployment Services.
And once you're done is going to give you this now I'm going to uncheck add images to
the server now and then click Finish.
And then we're good right now let's go inside smart deploy.
And within here we are going to click on reimage devices.
Click on Create Media.
It's going to start loading up Once it loads up Click on Next.
From here we are going to pick WDS boot media click next, pick your platform packs and then
click Next.
If you haven't answer file, click on Browse and then pick your answer file.
And then click on open and then click on next here from here you're going to pick media
type so I'm going to leave it as the default, which is smartpe 64 bit, then click on Next.
And then you're going to specify a WIM file.
So click on Browse and within browse it's going to automatically save it inside the
smart deploy media folder.
I'm going to change the name to smart deploy WDS right makes sense.
Right.
Click Save, hit next, and then click finish and it's going to start creating the media
for you.
Once it's done, it's going to give you this nice little dialog box stating that the media
created successfully.
Click ok.
We're going to open up our Windows Deployment Services node and we are going to go inside
boot images.
We're going to right click on the boot images node and then click on Add boot image you're
going to get the Add image wizard, click on Browse and browse to where you drop that smart
deploy WDS for us it was smart deploy media.
So we are going to click on it click on Open, click on Next, I'm gonna leave everything
as the default but you are able to customize it click on next nice little summary click
on next and we're done.
And that's it guys now do not stop the video.
Because I'm going to do a speed video with this process you guys are actually going to
see a machine PXE booting using this particular image and it's going to start deploying the
you know the Windows image from smart deploy to that machine.
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