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Now, before we leave the topic of installing the operating system, I want to mention Windows Deployment Services. This is added to Windows Server 2008 and it's actually an enhancement. WDW, or Windows Deployment Services actually replaces the old RIS, or Remote Installation Services. Now, when I say it replaces it, you can still use RIS if you have that in place, but WDS is a better alternative. Trust me. WDS gets installed as a server role so we'll go into Server Manager and create a server role for a server and we can still use our old RIS images if you have those. You'll use WDS basically in what's called Legacy Mode and that will allow you to continue to use those RIS images. Now, for Vista deployment, WDS is better and as a matter of fact, it's probably required. RIS had some serious issues with Vista and it took a lot of banging and clanging to get it to work. WDS performs remote boots, which is really the cool way to go. It utilizes a client-server protocol and it will actually push the installation down to a client that booted into a PXE or PXE Server Extension. Now, the PXE Server is turned on through the Windows Deployment Services Microsoft Management Console Tool that shows up once you install this role on the server. Now, when you start to look at Windows Deployment Services, there's a lot of different ways you can go, but there's two types of installations that roughly these things fall into. The first one's called a Light Touch Installation and this is where you're going to have an image on your WDS Server and a user out there can basically be booted or can remote boot and then you can do an installation of an image but this requires some sort of initiation by the administrator, so the administrator has to do something to cause this to happen. Now, this works great for phased installations. Say you've got 40 Desktops that need to be deployed and you're going to get five of them at a time every afternoon or every morning or whatever or every weekend. And so you can actually kick these off and have the ones that you want to go taken care of. Now there's also an option called Zero Touch Installations. It's kind of a Cadillac version. This is policy-based, and by that we mean Group Policy-Based, which means that these are automated deployments. So when the user logs in or the computer logs onto the network, Group Policy can watch for that and it can automatically push an installation out to that particular machine. This is a great enhancement to RIS and I think you'll like this a lot better. Having said that, you'll have to go out and look at the documentation on Windows Deployment Services and you can find some white papers and stuff out on Microsoft's web site by the time this is finished and you actually get this course. Microsoft continues to put a lot of information out there. You're going to see some show up on Windows Server 2008 for quite a while. If, when you get this video, you don't see that stuff out there quite yet, keep a check on it and look in some of the third-party books out there in the bookstores and so forth. Look in the Help Files as well. You'll see some information. Now, I want to show you this so let me get out to the Server Manager. So I jumped out to the Desktop. Now let's kick off the Server Manager and I just want to show you real quickly how to get this started. I'm not going to go through it. The whole idea of deployment can get very unique and personal for your particular network and situation. Notice I'm going to go add a role and notice I've already added this in a previous exercise, but if I go Next, you'll just see that it's a role out here that I can choose if it wasn't installed. I would just choose it, I would say Next, it'll click and hum for a few minutes, the Windows Deployment Services gets installed and then I'm done there. Now, what's interesting about this, I'll cancel the wizard here. After I have installed it, it automatically shows up over here inside my Server Manager under the Windows Deployment Services snap-in and so I can expand that and you can see the servers that have that. Now, notice it's saying wait a minute dude, you haven't configured this yet. OK? To configure it, select the server and this is the only one that has it in my domain. It's actually the only domain in my, the only server in my domain. I can go to the Action Menu and say Configure Server or I can just right click on the server and say Configure Server and notice it's going to tell me that it needs to be a member of an Active Directory Domain Services, it needs to have active DHCP on my network, Active DNS and an NTSF partition on the Windows Deployment Service. Then it's going to ask me the path and the folder name, the remote installation folder and I can keep going through here and it's also going to warn me here, wait a minute, this is the same one as the system volume. We recommend you put it somewhere else and then we start to answer questions about the PXE Server, initial settings, don't respond to any client computers, respond only to known client computers, on and on and on. And you can go through and we will say don't respond to any client computer for now. Notice it's just going to set this up, configure it and then I will be ready to continue on. Very easy to set this stuff up. All you need to do now is go out and look in some of the documentation. Get your image, put it in the right place and then continue on from there. And notice it's asking me do I want to add images to the Deployment Server now. So anyway, I just wanted you to know this is out there. You need to read up and study on this and learn how to make this fit into whatever situation, whatever environment you're working in. But this is the Windows Deployment Service and again, it runs as a role on a server.