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Windows Deployment Services: WDSUTIL CommandLine Options on Windows Server 2019

Windows Deployment

Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a really interesting tool from Microsoft for network-based installation (deployment) of Windows operating systems. In windows server 2003 it was called Remote Installation Services (RIS). The purpose of WDS is to remotely deploy the Windows operating systems. See how to setup the WDS role.

WDS also allows you to deploy the operating system through a network installation. That’s the most important feature of WDS. One of the advantages of using the Windows deployment server is that WDS can work with Windows image (.wim) files. Windows image files could be created through the use of the Windows Sysprep utility.

Windows Deployment Services

WDSUTIL is a command-line utility to manage your Windows Deployment Services server. The location of the executable is windows\system32\wdsutil. Run the command prompt as administrator and run the below wdsutil commands to manage WDS.

– On how to configure WDS, see the article https://techdirectarchive.com/2020/05/12/configuration-of-windows-deployment-services-wds/

Below are some wdsutil command line options.

CommandDescription
/addAdds images and devices to the WDS server
/removeRemoves images from the server
/start Starts WDS services
/stopStops WDS services
/newCreates new capture images or discover images
/getGets information from images, image groups, WDS servers, and WDS devices
/setSets information in images, image groups, WDS servers, and WDS devices
 /update Uses a known good resource to update a server resource
 /delete-autoadddevices Deletes records from the Auto-Add database
 /reject-autoadddevices Rejects Auto-Add devices
 /approve-autoadddevices  Approves Auto-Add devices
 /enable  Enables WDS services
 /disable  Disables WDS services
 /copy-image Copies images from the image store
 /export-image  Exports to WIM files images contained within the image store
 /convert-ripimageConverts Remote Installation Preparation (RIPrep) images to WIM images
/initialize-server Initializes the configuration of the WDS server
/uninitialize-serverUndo any changes made during the initialization of the WDS server

For an example on how to use the WDSUTIL is a command-line utility, see the following links below.
https://techdirectarchive.com/2020/05/26/windows-deployment-services-how-to-add-images-to-wds-via-the-gui-and-wdsutil/

wdsutil /add-imagegroup /imagegroup:Windows2019_x64

I hope you found this blog post helpful. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comment session.

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