Install Windows like a PRO! Windows Deployment Services Tutorial
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Installing Windows is boring and tedious. And if you need to customize installs across multiple machines, often rife with mistakes. Today I'm going to show you how businesses deploy Windows over the network, saving time, money, and most of the headache that goes with that process.
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I have been in the IT Industry for over 25 years now, and this is the best tutorial I have ever seen, if Microsoft Trainings were like this I am sure there will be more and better prepared professionals in the industry. Thank you for making this soooo simple!!!
22 years myself, I have been focused on the Unix/Linux side of things and I am really lacking with Windows Server knowledge and this video makes me want to plead with the content creator to teach an entire course for everything a person needs to know about Windows Server hahaha. Truly a wonderful tutorial
For at least the last 20 years there is nothing easy like this.
This is the most concise and approachable way of explaining WDS I've ever seen. I'm going to send this to all of the newer IT techs at my company. Nice work and I'm looking forward to your MDT video.
Merry Christmas Mr Craft.
Definitely want to see the follow-up video about customizing the build with apps, drivers, settings, and removal of cruft.
Hi i'm also from Jupiter?! :D
Definitely wanna see this
Finally an up to date and understandable guide. Windows documentation and tutorials are a mess. Highly appreciated!
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A windows 10 install imagine where you dont have to spend 10 minutes clicking "no" to all the various spy/tracking crap that 99.99% of people turn off on install. Would be great.
That's exactly what's coming next ;-)
@@CraftComputing Calm down Craft, you had me at watery eggnog! You noble bas***d :D
@@CraftComputing dang, that's exactly what I wanted to learn for work.
Although for now, i'm using the lazy "clone a standard install disk over and over" route
Also, wonder if you ever made something for WSUS ?
LTSC if you don't care about windows licensing ;)
@@CraftComputing cool, keep going
Jeff, you are a legend. I've been watching for a while, but this one got my subscription! I've been toying with the idea of remote deployment for a while, but this has sealed the deal. Thanks mate!
This couldn't have been timed better. I'm an apprentice at an IT company and just got some homework to setup a deployment server like this. This guide was super helpful, thanks a lot!
i have watch the entire week to the movies about WDS and i did not understand a thing , and your tutorial brings the light in my frustration . Thank you.
Great video man, would love to see a guide on how to setup a Linux PXE server! Gonna use this in my lab but I deploy Linux machines more often! :)
Would Be Nice to do more one Linux images . complete under video .
Greetings from the Netherlands
Literally the best WDS tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you for making this more accessible!
Definitely would love to see custom images, or creating an image for install from an existing PC
Excellent intro to WDS. Can't wait for the customized images follow-up.
I needed this. Thanks for taking the time to make this easy to follow tutorial!
Ayyye, awesome. Next integrate MDT with it (it's free), and be amazed at the automation. :-)
This is the way. I haven't had to keep track of my "golden image" in a year. I just update the OS ISO every now and then.
I am so excited for the custom image image option! I spent about a week banging my head against the wall on that and I’m ready to see it done! Thank you!!
If you install adt, then MDT you can configure a deployment share with an unattended xml in which you can skip bd welcome and set local admin, etc... You can even create custom driver selection profiles that reference specific driver imports and inject them into your image through task sequence during the deployment. The task sequence is very powerful. This setup even allows application installs with included windows update passes. I suggest msi I installers for quiet switches to make things easier. There's a lot out there on this. Check them all out!
I've been using Hyper-V and Macrium for this. Make a reference image every half a year (Home & Pro), sysprep it, capture with Macrium, then deploy. Works for both BIOS and UEFI, takes about 2-5 minutes to deploy. Also works with laptops and I don't bother with drivers - have seen very few computers that need drive controller drivers. Then, Windows takes care of all updates. Total time is usually about 20 minutes, with about three minutes of work
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Dude, this video must have taken so much effort. Well done mate.
To get a iso of windows 10 with an install.wim instead of install.esd: make the site believe you are using a tablet/smartphone to download the iso.
chrome: open devtools(F12), toggle device toolbar and load the page (or reload)
firefox: open devtools(F12), toggle reponsive design mode and load the page (or reload)
I want to thank you for making this video and showing how relatively simple it is to set up WDS. I’ve been putting off setting it up for years, but now that I have it it has saved me SO much time.
I just went through the video step by step and learned how to set up WDS. I can't say thank you enough. Great video. Everything worked perfectly.
This is great. You just made something that can be so mind-numbing into something I feel comfortable doing.
I have a major deployment to do and you’ve given me a fantastic starting point.
Thank you!
Thanks for this tutorial Jeff! I've been wanting to do something like this for awhile and this video finally got me to do it! This was super easy to follow, and I really appreciate the explanations of some of the pitfalls like not grouping unlike builds. Well done!
i remember been 13y old and making bootable cd-roms to clone windows NT to bank terminals with NortonGhost image files over the network... was sooo cool... 😎
We had an MsDos with networking flash drive where images were on the network share, that was huge progress in getting it standardized and much faster imaging process
Hi Jeff! Thanks to you, I finally built my first server! Thanks for all the amazing Videos! I'm really excited to learn how to make a custom Installed.
P.s. Merry Christmas! :)
If you have an MSDN/Visual Studio subscription, and download your Windows 10 ISO from there, you get the install.wim without the extra work. Retail discs and ISOs created with the Microsoft media creation tool will get you the ESD that needs to be converted. Just FYI for anyone who has access to that...
This is exactly what I am trying to learn right now. Cant wait for the next one.
New subscriber here and holly cow, how come I miss this Gem, this is the first video I watch from this channel and waiting impatiently for the next one on windows Deployment series,
Thanks TH-cam for recommending This channel,
Marry Christmas Mr Craft
awesome I asked for it and you did it this is great, this will help me greatly since i always seem to be the guy building pc's for people and installing windows for them.
I was researching this topic and your video was excellent guiding me through the whole process. Update: ive come back to watch this video at least 6 times!
Oh hell yeah, this is fantastic.
I install Windows often enough that I keep an installer handy on a flash drive, but infrequently enough that I forget which flash drive it's on and what version it is so I end up always creating a new flash drive anyway.
All I can say is "Wow!!!!!" thank you. I need to setup a WDS for my datacenter and you just open the door for me. Again Thank you!!
If you're not doing a lot of installs, get an imaging software like O & O or Laplink Disk Image. Install Windows on a machine. Make a bootable Flash drive with the imaging software (super-easy) and take an image of the machine. Boot said flash drive on a new machine and install your image. I use an NVME flash drive and install a new Windows 10 machine in under 5 minutes. When you're installing on a new machine that already comes with the same version of Windows pre-installed, Windows will activate with the digital product key in the BIOS. I like to occasionally run updates and take a new image so new installs take as little time as possible. Remember to update your image at least once every 12 months so MS doesn't deactivate your license! Keeping an updated image with WDS is a HUGE pain in the buttox.
Wow, wish I had this stuff back in the XP days with server when I was going to IT school. so great to watch! Thanks.
Well that's what 'boot from network' option in bios does :D
I always love watching videos from this channel. But this video takes the cake. I have been searching for this kind of video.
Thank you Craft Computing. Cheers and Merry Christmas
Your Walk-through/Tutorial is a great help. I feel now comfortable doing it by myself. Definitely want to see the follow-up video about customizing the build
DISM is your friend! lol I use basically business Dell hardware. Having custom images for said hardware is a life saver. I save the recovery images for this purpose. Like let's say you've got a Latitude e6330.. that deployment image file has all the drivers built in that you would need for not just that model but e6430 and e6530 as well. The newer systems I just use Dell's SupportAssist to do the wor4k for me. Boot, recover via cloud, update via SupportAssist and let that app do the magic.
Jeff remind your viewers that if they export the first win10 image correctly, instead of re-typing it all they can up arrow and replace the index number and change the output name to do the second one faster. Maybe its commong knowledge but I didnt know if it would work till i tried it
Thank you for doing this, your guides have helped me hugely with grasping It concepts. I have dyspraxia which sometimes makes picking these things up hard but your guides are super concise and to the point. Much appreciated! It’s helped me in my current job already
That makes me very happy to hear. Glad I could help :-)
@@CraftComputing Just as a follow on from this, I've been following more on your guides because they have been so useful and helped me tap into IT knowledge I didn't realise I had. I've been offered a 3rd line position at work; 3 yrs ago when I started entry level helpdesk for another job I was told I was too stupid and too "spastic" to progress and make a career in IT, up until about a year ago they might have been right. The new position means I can finally after years of trying sort my life out, get debt free and hopefully fix my stupid old car. It might sound weird or whatever but these tutorials might have just saved my life. Thank you so so much for taking the time to make these for us Jeff.
4:33 - You should consider using Windows Admin Center and avoid using the servers directly, simply access the functionality centrally.
You should get an Oscar! Best explanation Video a Ever Seen! Keep it up 👍
bruh. i cant thank you enough. clear concise and you explain WHY.
Every one has there own little querks with the way they do things don't they. I never copy the wim files over manually. Just mount the images and point WDS to the mounted image. It then copy's the files over its self. Also you can get a windows 10 home / pro 20h2 image from ms that has WIM images in it rather than ESD. Another thing to note is that if your home lab is a domain, WDS will automatically add all domain joinable computers to the domain that WDS is set up in. Presume with customisation of images your going to go through MDT... Good luck 🍀😃
Finally an easy to understand video on setting up WDS. Thank you.
Great video, as usual Jeff. I think you should add a Pi-KVM into the series so you can show how easy it is to use the WDS to deploy to an actual physical PC even without setting up a monitor/keyboard.
Amazing, I am studying to become a SysAdmin. This video will come in handy for sure!
As a note, in case you didn't know, you can do .\ instead of hostname\ to automatically add the hostname of the remote host during authentication, especially useful if you don't know the hostname or can't remember it
LIke a pro indeed!! total n00b here, getting ready to take the dive into a helpdesk role hopefully and change careers. Got yourself a sub!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Man. The company I worked for could use this so much for deployed clients.
And Kirkland stuff is amazing bang for the buck.
I have learned so much from you Jeff. I knew nothing about servers I still don't know everything but I can deploy A few servers at the same time remotely and deploy all the work stations that are needed for person or business now. Thank you does not do any Justus for as much as A I have learned from you. Marry Christmas to you and your family
im really happy that you decided to go full time youtuber!
Great video, I've been wanting to set this up at work to re-image 40+ desktops, so thank you for the quick crash course! I look forward to more of these types of videos. :D
Very well crafted video. I do like your no fuzz style, well spoken, good editing, nice elevator music...subscribed to your channel a while ago. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Very nice sir! I just completed setting this up on my R710. I tested it successfully and it's working nicely. Thanks!!
Great video man! I have been using WDS on my DELL R710 Windows Server 2019 to install my OS's over a couple of years and love how convenient it is.
Thank you! Going to try this in an environment with AD (homelab). And will also watch your other recommended video. Thanks again!
Love the shoulder tick. Thank you for all you do.
One of the cleanest tutorials I've seen. But most from Craft Computing are. There's about the perfect amount of info usually in videos. 👍👍
This was really helpful for me. Thank you!
Thank you, that was easy to follow. I would love more videos like this about deploying and customizing windows installs.
I did this for myself at work recently. Installed 4 computers in an unattended install in about 10-15 minutes. I just had to make sure they booted automatically from PXE into the install. Makes it SOOO much easier.
Broooo...for real. With COVID and all. Everyone "needed" laptops. I just imaged 32 dell 5410's in the past two weeks. If you're not automating you're wrong. Lol.
@@SkipsTinyBeard Exactly. I'm disabled with back problems and work limited hours. It took me almost a year to install 1709 onto about 250 computers, working for 5 hours a week in 1.5 hour shifts. Really wish we would have had a server back then, lol. I'd do 4 at a time. I could get about 8 done in an hour and a half per day. (had other distractions where I couldn't work on them)
Your arm twitch every time you flex your hands is fascinating to watch. :)
Great video. I’ve not used WDS for many years. Perhaps it’s time to have another look.
You are the beast thanks for this I just happen to be running Windows Server 2019 and you just made my day. I have set this up and tested it on two laptops and yes it worked like a champ! One love always
As an IT Endpoint Sys Admin, I do take WDS and SCCM for granted, don't realize a lot of people don't know that you can PXE boot and image PCs with TS :)
13:50 you can actually relatively easily get the "right" install iso for Windows 10 with the install.wim by changing the user agent string with F12 to sth like a Samsung S5 or anything else but Windows. This will load the windows 10 download page with the direct download link for the ISO. Another way would be surfing to that page on your phone ;) This will guarantee you to have a perfect copy of windows. A colleague of mine at work download the iso with esd numerous times but was not able to integrate it with MDT for some reason. Using the upper mentioned one helped him. He wasted a lot of time figuring this out 😂
I did a lotta bulk-installations some years ago - thanks for the brush-up on new procedures
I made an install usb using windows ADK, with custom stuff to skip the annoying prompts. Waiting for your next video, can't wait to make my own WDS for testing purposes. Thank you!
Great video! Looking forward to the customized install versions. Thanks for the great work!
Oh man thank you for covering this! I've been wanting to dive into this for a while but was kinda overwhelmed. Your Walk-through/Tutorial was a great help, I got it up and running in no time. Will you be diving into MDT as well?
This guide helped me a lot but i couldn't follow as quick so had to watch it a couple times, very helpful video overall :)
Excellent, just the info I needed.! Looking forward to the followup videos you mentioned!
I got this working under unraid. Thanks for a great step by step as always.
Thank you for the clear and concise content❗ I'm currently studying for MD100/101
Just found your channel from TH-cam suggesting in my feed. Really like the style. And looking forward to getting to know your content!
Really appreciated the ESD extraction information in this video. If you were looking to expand on this topic in the future you could show a sysprep & capture for WDS deployment in a part 2 version. Great information in this one though for sure!
Thank you Mr Jeff. Happy New year stay safe mate. You drank that whole bottle aswell😂😂
Thanks for the refresher for WDS, been a while since I touched it but it seems the same as 2008 R2.
Merry Christmas and have a safe holiday. Also if you ever get any Aussie beers, I recommend Coopers.
Mind blowing explanation and general delivery. Thank you for your guidance in the field
This is a great tutorial! Looking to more videos like this. You explain things very well.
Also one of the few that utilize background music without it getting distracting. ;-)
Cheers!
Very interesting. Looking forward to your video with customized install images!
This really helped me with my Admin course. Thank you!
merry christmas, jolly ol' computer dude!
You can make it somewhat easier when exporting both home *and* pro versions of Windows to the same WIM file. Simply use the same destination image file, and it will create a file for the first image exported, and then add any image subsequently exported. And you can even change the name and description at that stage.
Heads up, WDS is partly deprecated now, and Win 11 can't be installed this way. You need to use MDT to create a boot image that WDS sends out. That image will reach back out to the deployment share and download the wim, packages, drivers, etc.
Win11 can still be installed through WDS, so long as your WDS server is using a Win10 Boot WIM.
I am already working on putting together a Win11 deployment guide, but it's obviously going to take some time.
Thank you so much. Concise and effective!! Gonna try this today!!
Great content! I really appreciate how well you break it all down.
Great video, love this and definately going to do it. Heads up: there is a typo in your google doc, the second command it has a N instead of an M in /sourceImageFile
I remember playing with this a long time ago, the first ever OS I installed from PXE was Windows 7 RC 7100. I didn't stick to this method because my server was a Vista era laptop with fast ethernet so it was faster to just create an USB drive and install from it
I love the 3.5 floppy drive as a coaster!!!!
i will be glad if you can make a windows server course, thanks i love your content, you are a pro ! honestly.
Nice Video, something that most will actually get some use out of. I like these types of videos. Thanks! Merry Christmas!
Thanks for making this video! I've been wondering how to do this for a while now.
Thank you so much i have been struggling with network installs
Already know everything about Windows Deployment still fun to watch though :)
Learned WDS 6 yrs ago.. great tool..
Actually the ESD/WIM situation is for licensing reasons. Microsoft doesn't want you to use server-based deployment with the freely available ESD files, it's actually a breach of their EULA to do so (not that anyone cares for homelab use). If you have a volume license agreement you get to download ISO's with the WIM files directly. Again, for home/lab purposes, who cares, but for anyone thinking you can do this in an enterprise setting with OEM or retail licenses please be aware that it will be a no-no if you get an audit from Microsoft.
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This has been a huge help! Really looking forward to the follow up. Can you cover how to customize the image as well?
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