Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
• Deploy Windows Deployment Services on the computer and network infrastructure only if the organization frequently deploys many servers or desktops or wants to ensure consistent and quickly recoverable systems.
• Place the WDS image repository on a separate volume dedicated for images, and not on the system volume.
• When customized desktop images will be captured to the WDS server as new install images, ensure that the sysprep utility is run before booting into a capture image; otherwise, the image will be a duplicate of the workstation, and there will be name and computer SID conflicts.
• When utilizing unattend files, make sure to secure access to these files as some will ...
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