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LAB 1
DEPLOYING AND
MANAGING SERVER
IMAGES

THIS LAB CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES:

Exercise 1.1 Installing and Configuring Windows Deployment Services

Exercise 1.2 Creating Windows Deployment Images

Exercise 1.3 Generating an Autounattend.xml file

Exercise 1.4 Deploying a Windows Image

Exercise 1.5 Updating a Windows Image

Lab Adding Drivers to a Windows Image

Challenge

Installing and Configuring Windows Deployment

Exercise 1.1 Services
Overview In this exercise, you first create a new server. You then install and
configure Windows Deployment Services, so that you can quickly
install Windows servers in the future.
Completion time 10 minutes
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Mindset Question: If you have a network infrastructure in place including a domain

controller, a DNS server and a DHCP server, what are the general
steps that you need to perform before you deploy Windows using
WDS?

17. On the Remote Installation Folder Location page, take a screen shot by pressing
Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab1_worksheet file in the page provided
by pressing Ctrl+V.

[copy screen shot over this text]

What is the default path for the remote installation folder?

Question
1

Why is the default location not recommended.

Question
2

22. Take a screen shot of the Windows Deployment Services Configuration Wizard
by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab1_worksheet file in the
page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.
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Exercise 1.2 Creating Windows Deployment Images

Overview In this exercise, you prepare images (boot images and install
images) that will be used to deploy Windows.

Completion time 20 minutes

What drive letter was the ISO file mounted to?

Question
3

What is the boot image based on?

Question
4

Exercise 1.3 Generating an Autounattend.xml File

Overview You are ready to deploy Windows. However, if you install using
WDS, you will have to interact with the Windows installation
program by choosing applicable settings during the installation
process. To help automate the installation, during this exercise, you
create an Autoattend.xml file and check a provided
Autounattend.xml file.
Completion time 20 minutes
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Mindset Question: So far, you have installed and configured WDS. However, right now,
the WDS server will only allow you to install Windows remotely just
as if you booted from the Windows Server 2012 installation disk.
What do you need to do to automate the installation?

Generating an Unattend.xml File

What are the two ways to create or modify an unattend xml

file?

Question
5

Checking a Current Autounattend.xml File

4. Take a screen shot of the Windows System Image Manager interface by pressing
Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab01_worksheet file in the page provided
by pressing Ctrl+V.

[copy screen shot over this text]

Exercise 1.5 Updating a Windows Image

Overview From time to time, you need to patch a Windows image. During this
execise, you add a Windows update package to the install.wim file.

Completion time 20 minutes

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Mindset Question: You need to update a Windows Image with a critical patch. What
are the general steps to add the patch to the Windows image?

7. Take a screen shot of the Package folder by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it
into your Lab01_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

[copy screen shot over this text]

18. Take a screen shot of the Command Prompt by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then
paste it into your Lab01_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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LAB REVIEW QUESTIONS

Completion time 10 minutes

1. In Exercise 1.1, what program did you use to install WDS?

2. In Exercise 1.2, what two images did you have to add to the WDS server to
handle the Windows installation?
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3. In Exercise 1.3, what program did you use to create the unattend file?

4. In Exercise 1.3, what program should you use to verify a unattend file?

5. In Exercise 1.3, how was the Windows System Image Manager installed?

6. In Exercise 1.4, what two places did you have to define an unattend file?

7. In Exercise 1.5, what program did you use to modify a Windows image?
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Lab
Challenge Adding Drivers to a Windows Image
Overview To complete this challenge, you must demonstrate how to add
drivers to a Windows image by writing the steps to complete the
tasks described in the scenerio. Since the class servers do not have
drivers to add, just write the steps as if the drivers actually existed.
Completion time 10 minutes

Over the last couple of months, you have been using WDS to deploy Windows Server
2012. Recently, you started to purchase new servers that require additional drivers that
are not included with Windows installation. You need to ensure that WDS will deploy
these drivers. What should you do?

Write out the steps you performed to complete the challenge.