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Microsoft 's System Preparation Utility

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You may come across a situation where you have a computer that does not support a PXE boot. For these cases you can boot the computer from disk using a discover image. A discover image is an image file that you can burn to a CD-ROM or other boot medium(s). When you boot the client computer using the discover image disk, the computer loads Windows PE, connects to a specified WDS server, and proceeds with the operating system installation process. Before capturing a computer with WDS, you must prepare a master or reference computer with the Sysprep.exe utility and reboot the computer using the capture image. Microsoft’s System Preparation Utility (Sysprep.exe) prepares a Windows computer for cloning by removing specific computer information such as the computer name and Security Identifier (SID). On Windows Server 2012, the Sysprep.exe is located in the following folder: We studied in the above topic about the minimum requirements to boot the WDS server and deploy an image to a client computer which are a boot image and an install image. However, you can also create two additional types of boot images in order to boot the WDS server. These are capture and discover images and are explained below: In addition, the boot image starts the operating system installation. The install image on the other hand contains the operating system that WDS installs.The boot images and the install images use the WIM, a file format that allows a file structure (folders and files) to be stored

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