Introduction to Deploying Windows Server 2008

Introduction

This article provides a road map for the various Windows Server® 2008 deployment technologies. There are three main technologies available:

• Windows Deployment Services role (WDS)
• Microsoft Deployment Solutions Accelerator (MD)
• System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

These components provide a complete deployment upgrade path starting with WDS, going through MD, and culminating with SCCM. Each provides a superset of features with respect to its predecessor.

Hosting Guidance provides PowerShell Scripts samples and guidance to set up key server roles such as Web and File Server for particular Hosting scenarios (initially for Shared Hosting; more to come on this subject). After you have executed the scripts to build the server machine, proceed with WDS to continue your deployment.

Assuming that the goal is to deploy a particular Server Role to a large set of available machines, the simplest approach consists of three steps:

1. Prepare an initial sever with the OS and the software configuration required for the Server Role.
2. Use WDS to create an image of the server.
3. Use WDS to deploy such image onto the target machines.

However, there will be cases in which this simple approach is not enough. For example, in some organizations there are multiple data centers situated in different environments, each with specific settings to satisfy locale/geography, security, network, and/or functionality requirements for which a common base image of particular Server Roles is desired to enforce organizational policies, but is not sufficient for full deployment due to the complexity of the post deployment configuration steps.

In such cases, it is recommended to use the Microsoft Deployment Solutions Accelerator (MD) or the more complete System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). A first step would be to evaluate using MD, since:

• It provides an end-to-end solution to deployment and configuration with minimal user intervention (also referred to as "light touch") which is sufficient for most hosting scenarios.
• It is available for download, providing rich documentation and C# source code to aid integration into custom systems.
• The user interface, process, and resources are consistent with the more sophisticated SCCM. Moreover, all the deployment data created through MD can be easily upgraded and used within SCCM, constituting an ideal upgrade path.
• It provides a detailed guide based on the Microsoft Solutions Framework for Planning, Preparing, Testing, and Deploying.

This article contains:

Deployment Project
Using WDS
Using MD
Using SCCM

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