How can I add a Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) instance to Windows Server 2003 Automated Deployment Services (ADS) 1.1?

John Savill

July 16, 2006

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A. ADS 1.1 added the capability to integrate with WinPE directly, including options to configure devices to boot to WinPE. However, by default, ADS doesn't provide a WinPE environment. To add a WinPE instance, you first add the instance to the ADS repository, which is where ADS stores its WinPE instances. To do so, use the adsrepository command, as follows:

C:>adsrepository /add PE2005 \Savdaldc01DataOS Imagespe2005

Note that you need to add WinPE environments that are based on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later (WinPE 2005).

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