WDS only on 2k8?

phoeneousphoeneous Member Posts: 2,333 ■■■■■■■□□□
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Is WDS only available from 2k8? I'm going to be deploying about 45 Win7 pc's, looking for a good deployment solution.
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  • blargoeblargoe Member Posts: 4,174 ■■■■■■■■■□
    You can install it on 2003 (I think it comes with 2003 R2? SP2?) We were running it on 2003 for a while. However, I don't know whether you could deploy Windows 7 from a 2003 WDS.
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  • Hyper-MeHyper-Me Banned Posts: 2,059
    You can install WDS on 2003, and you can deploy 2000/XP/Vista/7 with it as well.

    There are some versioning differences when used on varying OS'

    2003: all the regular stuff
    2008: has the 2003 stuff as well as multicasting
    2008 R2: Has previous version stuff as well as segmented multicasting (puts slower clients on seperate streams), and dynamic driver provisioning.
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  • ZartanasaurusZartanasaurus Member Posts: 2,008 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Yeah you can use it on 2003 and it works just fine.
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