What Are Deployment Services?

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Deployment services are software-based solutions designed to support the implementation and rollout of new applications or infrastructure. They may include hardware or software acquisition, configuration, tuning and staging, installation, and interoperability tests.

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Windows Deployment Service (WDS) is a network-based, centrally managed deployment of operating systems on bare-metal computers. It is the successor of Remote Installation Services (RIS). WDS uses disk imaging to run any operating system.

For instance, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and later employ the Windows Image Format (WIM) to create images for remote installation. A Windows image has an environment that is pre-boot and boots the computer and allows it to install the operating system. The pre-boot environment can be modified and expanded by the administrator to carry out other tasks such as installing additional drivers.

To allow WDS to work the environment needs to be set up so that it can connect to an internet-connected network. In addition the environment should have a server that has the Windows Deployment Services server role installed. This includes a DHCP server.

Microsoft provides a variety of tools that can be used with WDS to manage the deployment servers, build, take, and apply images. These include imagex, dism and wdsutil. These tools can be used on the same server as the WDS server or on a separate server. The imagex command-line utility can produce an individual WIM structure, or a deduplication of WIM. It can be used on a network share or mapped drive. The wdsutil tool can be used to manage the WDS server without GUI and to add captured images to the repository.

Virtual Machines – Can be created to function as client computers in the process of creating and testing Windows deployment images. Virtual machines can reduce the performance of the Trivial File Transfer Protocol download phase. This is especially important in the event that the virtual machine isn’t capable of handling a full boot loader.

Multiple WDS servers – Could be used to provide redundancy and fault tolerance. You can utilize a single WDS to manage a number of WIM images or you can deploy multiple WDS servers to increase availability and the degree of fault tolerance.

A Windows image can be created with ImageX or another third-party tool, and then distributed over the Internet to other WDS server. The image is downloaded to local server or remote server, or a Hyper-V virtual machines.

Ron’s supervisor gives him the responsibility of deploying the latest Windows 7 OS at the branches of the company’s fifty offices. He wants to do it remotely, so he doesn’t need to travel to branch offices. However, the company policy dictates only one DHCP is allowed on corporate network, and that’s located at the Tooth City Office.