With its additional group policy objects, Vista won out, says Resnick. As applications, Resnick chose Office and Sharepoint. He also brought in new desktops 65 and laptops 18 for almost every employee. All desktops are Intel DualCore-based, running at a minimum of 2. Laptops are AMD 1. Just when they thought they were ready to complete the rollout, Resnick and team encountered a group policy problem related to imaging the machines an automated installation kit that takes a blank desktop and pushes Vista and Office in one install.
IT delayed the rollout so the team could troubleshoot. Windows DS is implemented as a server role on Windows Server and consists of three types of components:. Figure 1 shows the server components of a Windows DS server and how they work together to make remote installation of Windows onto bare-metal systems possible. Figure 1: Server components of Windows DS. The Windows DS client displays a menu that can the remote user can use to select which Windows operating system image he wants to install on his computer, and once the user makes his selection the Windows DS client then requests the appropriate Windows image from the image repository on the Windows DS server, downloads this image to the destination computer, and launches Windows Setup in order to install the image on the destination computer.
Figure 1 shows the management components of a Windows DS server and how they integrated with the Active Directory environment you need to use Windows DS in its default implementation scenario. Figure 2: Management components of Windows DS.
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