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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Windows 7 Deployment Using WDS
Why Using WDS?
Deploying operating systems using technologies like Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 or even System Center Configuration Manager are far more scalable that we can offer using WDS. But there's always the cost/benefit analysis we should take before deciding to use always the most scalable and dynamic technology available.
Having a robust platform for deployment requires, as always, bigger costs for maintain it; and if there's no trade off which we can see it in the short term, why bother? Example: We are using one operating system image as a baseline for our branch office with around 20 users; and we usually have to deploy one operating system to users per month. Should we need to allocate considerate hardware and efforts to maintain MDT or SCCM? Probably those technologies will be far more expensive than just using a simple one or even manual deployments.
Windows Deployment Services is a simple and straight forward technology to achieve fast and unattended deployments. Just loading a WIM file and the operating system is available over the network.
Deploying operating systems using technologies like Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 or even System Center Configuration Manager are far more scalable that we can offer using WDS. But there's always the cost/benefit analysis we should take before deciding to use always the most scalable and dynamic technology available.
Having a robust platform for deployment requires, as always, bigger costs for maintain it; and if there's no trade off which we can see it in the short term, why bother? Example: We are using one operating system image as a baseline for our branch office with around 20 users; and we usually have to deploy one operating system to users per month. Should we need to allocate considerate hardware and efforts to maintain MDT or SCCM? Probably those technologies will be far more expensive than just using a simple one or even manual deployments.
Windows Deployment Services is a simple and straight forward technology to achieve fast and unattended deployments. Just loading a WIM file and the operating system is available over the network.
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