How to Perform Common Tasks

Applies To: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

This topic contains procedures for performing common tasks using Windows Deployment Services MMC snap-in. and the WDSUTIL command line tool. The management tasks that you can perform with these tools fall into the following categories:

Category	Example tasks
How to Manage Your Server	Initialize and uninitialize a server View configuration information about the server Start/stop or enable/disable a server Update the RemoteInstall folder Set advanced server settings
How to Manage Client Computers	Create and delete prestaged accounts in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) View information about prestaged computers Configure settings for prestaged computers Reject/approve pending computers
How to Manage Images	View information about images and image groups Create images Add, copy, export, remove, update images from the image store Set attributes and associate unattend files for install images. Convert RIPREP images Add and remove image groups Set attributes of an image group
How to Modify the BCD Store Using Bcdedit	To view the contents of the BCD store To configure the default selection time-out value To configure a localized boot manager experience To configure the TFTP block size and window size To configure Windows debugger options