Log on to the server.
Server Manager GUI starts automatically when you log in as a default window.
Click Tools, and then click Windows Deployment Services to launch the Windows Deployment Services MMC-snap (or console). Or you can start WDS from the Start Menu.
In the left pane of the Windows Deployment...
Sign in to the server as a member of the local Administrators group. In this case we will just use the standard Administrator account for login.
Server Manager will start automatically. If it does not automatically start, click Start, type servermanager.exe, and then click Server Manager.
Server Manager...
So what is WDS (Windows Deployment Services)?
WDS is a server role in Windows Server (from 2008 to 2012), that enables us to deploy Windows operating systems to client and server computers. The technologies we must be aware of here are PXE (Pre eXecution Environment), Active Directory, DNS and also DHCP (for handling IP addressing).
Before...
Login to our server DC-1 as administrator.
From the server manager, click on Tools, and select DHCP.
You can see that the server for DHCP that is in-place is our domain controller, which is dc-1.labs.local (FQDN).
We will create a new scope for our lab client machines. A scope is a boundary or a range for organizing IP addresses...
Sign in to the server as a member of the local Administrators group.
Server Manager will start automatically. If it does not automatically start, click Start, type servermanager.exe, and then click Server Manager. OR you can open server manager from home screen.
Click Manage.
Click Add roles and features,...
Before we get into WDS tutorial I would like to briefly cover DHCP server role and installation in Windows Server 2012, as we will need to have a DHCP server in place for IP assignments in WDS. (Will discuss in future tutorials).
I will write down few articles on DHCP administration and configuration in future tutorials. For...
I would like to quickly touch base some information so far that we have covered in the previous six parts.
Our lab topology or network consists of a virtual router (pfSense), a Windows Server 2012 server, and a client.
Please note that we will install one or more servers, one or more clients in our future tutorials.
So we have covered:
how to install pfSense
how to configure a private or internal...
So far we have successfully installed pfSense (our virtual router), Windows Server 2012 Standard (domain controller). Also we have installed Active Directory Domain Services on the Server 2012.
We have created a new forest called "LABS.LOCAL" in AD as our lab domain.
If you have noticed we have not configured anything in...
