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