Four improvements to Windows Vista deployment

12.09.2006

Like RIS, WDS uses the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) capabilities of most modern BIOSes and network interface cards to load a session of Windows PE. Windows PE then presents a menu to the user consisting of all the appropriate image and configuration options available on the WDS machine. The user selects a target, and the image-in WIM format, of course-is laid onto the disk of the target machine.