WDS – Changing the default remote installation folder

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Two options:

1) Remove your original WDS Server, readd and configure WDS Server within the Windows Deployment Service console.

Or

2) From a command prompt type the below

wdsutil /Uninitialize-Server

Press enter

wdsutil /Initialize-Server /REMINST:”E:\RemoteInstall” (Amend path as required)

Press enter

If you receive the below error:

“The Filename, Directory Name, or Volume Label Syntax is Incorrect”

Its probably due to the drive your moving to is not shared for admin purposes. For example: If you type net share into a command prompt you will find that the C drive is shared but the drive
you are moving to is not.

Hope this helps

How to inject drivers into Windows 7 wim image using Windows Deployment Server

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1) Export your boot.WIM file from your server to the PC you have installed WAIK for windows 7 tools. You can download the tools from https://cloudbuild.co.uk/?p=1396
To export the boot.wim file, right click and export

2) Create a folder called C:\TEMP1 and then create two subfolders. DRIVERS and MOUNT

3) Transfer your BOOT.WIM file to C:\TEMP1 and rename the file to BOOTMODIFIED.WIM

4) Download all the drivers you require, extract and copy them C:\TEMP1\DRIVERS. So you may have a folder within the DRIVERS folder named ETHERNET, another one name VIDEO etc.

5) Next, click Start, Programs, Microsoft Windows AIK and Deployment Tools Command Prompt

6) Next, Mount your BOOTMODIFIED.WIM so you can make changes. To do this, run the below command:

7) Dism.exe /mount-wim /wimfile:C:\temp1\bootmodified.wim /index:2 /mountdir:C:\temp1\mount

8.) Wait for the command to be successful

9) Next, you will inject your drivers. To this type the below command.

Note: Replace ‘type name of file.inf’ with the driver name

dism /image:”C:\Temp1\mount” /add-driver  /driver:”C:\temp1\drivers\ethernet\type name of file.inf”  (If you have copied this command into your command prompt, retype the speech marks as they don’t always copy across correctly.)

10) When successful, commit the image by typing the below command, unless you wish to add further drivers.

Dism /unmount-wim /Mountdir:C:\Temp1\mount /commit

11) Now replace your boot.wim file located on your WDS server. Launch your Windows Deployment Console

12) Right click on the boot image you wish to update, and click disable

13) Right click on boot image again and select replace image.

14) Browse to where you stored BOOTMODIFIED.WIM

15) Done

Please note peimg was replaced in windows 7/server 2008 with command dism.

Download Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7

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The Windows Automated Installation Kit allows you to input drivers into a image, for example, when trying to deploy an image via Windows Deployment Server, you receive the below error:

wdsclient: An error occured while starting networking: a matching network car driver was not found in this image. Please have your administrator add the network driver for this machine to the WIndows PE image on the Windows deployment server.

The Windows Automated Installtion Kit for Windows 7 will allow you to inject the network driver into the image.

Download is available here

To, injext the driver into your .wim, see https://cloudbuild.co.uk/?p=1399

 

 

Deploy Windows Deployment Services (WDS) Step by Step

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A great step by step Windows Deployment Services setup including creating and deploying images. The tutorial can be found by clicking here