Installation Images

The installation images are the actual Windows installation media, packaged into a single WIM file. Depending on the actual media used to provide the WIM files, many different installation images might be included. For example, organizations that receive volume license media from Microsoft might have received a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 DVD that contains the full installation and the Server Core images for Standard and Datacenter editions and older server installation images may include also the Web and Enterprise editions. On a WDS server, normally only a single boot image is required per platform, x86 or x64, but it can contain many different installation images.

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