Saturday, September 1, 2012

Windows Deployment Services 2012 – What’s New!

4th September it’s the scheduled date for the official launch of Windows Server 2012. With a lot of new things and a more “cloud base” O.S., today I would like to focus a little bit in one of the features that I used a lot on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Windows Deployment Services (WDS) it’s one a product that helps IT Administrators to deploy Microsoft Windows and got a real boost with Windows Server 2008 where the product really got better and easy to use.

There are a lot of new things on the 2012 version and I’ve choose some of the has the “most important”:

ARM Architecture Support
Has expected, WDS 2012 will now support the image deployment for ARM clients which is an improvement in addiction to x86 and x64 architectures.


Standalone Server Mode
This one it’s a GREAT improvement. Finally the dependency on Active Directory was removed!
It still requires DHCP and DNS services but AD DS it’s over!


Expected Deployment Results Wizard
This is a modeling model that enables users to predict the results of a configuration change and how it impacts deployments.


Troubleshooting Enhancements
This on it’s also really welcome! The tracing with plain text it’s over and has now passed to ETW logging which enables a really better and efficient logging.


To know more detailed information about what’s new in Windows Deployment Services 2012 visit:
Technet - What's New for Windows Deployment Services

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