Microsoft Windows 7 Tutorials
Installing Windows 7 / Windows Deployment Services
Subtitles of the Movie (Microsoft Windows 7 / Installing Windows 7 / Windows Deployment Services)
Now the whole topic of deploying Windows 7 or any operating system in a corporate environment always gets really complex really quickly and so I don't want to go too deeply into this. But I just want to mention Windows Deployment Services because I brought it up in one of the videos about Windows PE and about deploying Windows 7 and I just want to bring your attention to Windows Deployment and to point you to a resource that I'm providing for you. First of all, Windows Deployment Services does exactly what its name implies. This is a service or an application that runs on a Windows Server 2008 Machine in an Active Directory Environment. OK, now it has to be a member of an Active Directory Domain. It requires DNS and DHCP Servers, this may sound complicated if you're not familiar with it but you have to have DNS or you wouldn't have Active Directory and usually you have DHCP anyway. So as a function of getting your Active Directory working and behaving correctly you will have DNS and DHCP services there. Now what Windows Deployment Services does for you, is it will take an image that you have created of a Windows 7 machine and push that across the network to client machines or to new machines and its going to usually pre-boot Execution Environment. You'll hear it called PXE or P-X-E and what this is, is a functionality that's built into the network card so that when you turn that machine on it will make a connection across the network and it will speak to that Deployment Services Server and inform it that I just started up and to send me an image and so forth and they'll negotiate and take care of that. So it'll install Windows 7 when the computer starts up and this is a really cool way to do things but there's a lot of planning and testing obviously that has to go into this. Now if you have non-PXE computers and these are becoming more and more rare but they're still out there in the corporate environments. You can use Boot Disks and again I've already talked about how you can use Boot USB's or Boot DVD's and so forth to get those machines up and communicating. Now I put some documentation in the Work Files folder because I don't want to go too deeply into this but I kind of want to throw some things at you that you can start to read over and start to educate yourself a little bit and if you will look in the Work Files folder with this course there is a WDS Documentation. ZIP File and if you will just extract that there's like three pieces of information in there and there's documents and then there's some CHM or some help files and you can go through all the information and get a much better, clearer understanding of how to use Windows Deployment Services. What it is, the requirements, how to implement it and there's some step by step things in there and so forth. So, if you're in a corporate environment and you've got to think about deploying Windows 7 to a lot of different places, a lot of different clients take a look at that documentation. But again I'm not really explaining Deployment Services I'm just kind of introducing you to this concept letting you know this tool is out there and what it does and for those of you ladies and gentlemen in the corporate IT environment that has to roll this out to a lot of client work stations, this is something you're going to have to look at. So let this be the jump off point for you if you haven't seen this before.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Windows 7 |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34064 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-86-6 |
| Release Date: | 2009-12-10 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 74 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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