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February 23rd, 2016 13:00

Deploy Wyse Image via PXE on WDS

Hi I was wondering if there was an instruction/manual somewhere that explains the process of deploying a wyse image using a WDS PXE server? I have not been able to find any helpful material.

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February 24th, 2016 13:00

For anyone interested, I have found the solution. Thanks for the reply, but thats not really the answer I was looking for. I know you guys have an instruction for managing/imaging the Wyse Clients with SCCM, which is a windows product, so I was hoping you had an instruction for imaging them strictly with WDS (Windows Deployment Services) via PXE booting. Here is what I did:

1. Customize your wyse image how you wish.

2. For the sysprep file, I decided to mostly follow the directions in the Wyse - SCCM guide Chapter 4, Phase 1, Step 1 (You're free to try your own sysprep file, I just felt it was easier for testing purposes, links below)

https://appservices.wyse.com/supportdownload/WES/Wyse_SCCM_WES7_Admin_Guide_AUG2013.pdf

3. Then I created a bootable USB for Windows PE. For this I used a Windows 7 laptop, WindowsAIK for Windows 7, and ImageX. Im not going to go through these steps as there are numerous references on the web as to how to do this.

4. Now that I had a bootable USB I went back to my Wyse Thin Client and captured the image using ImageX. Once again, there are plenty of example on the web on how to do this.

5. My newly captured image for some reason didn't have the boot.wim file on it, so I went to microsoft.com and downloaded a WES7 trial version. Follow the instructions on extracting it/creating an ISO. Inside that Wes7 iso you will find a file named boot.wim. Copy that file and the Wyse WIM image from step 4 to your WDS server.

6. You will need to add the network card driver to the boot.wim file, I had to also add a keyboard driver (once again a google search will show you how to do this via command prompt). 

7. Add the boot.wim and wyse.wim to WDS. (If you wish to apply an unattend.xml file, you would do this now)

8. Begin PXE booting your wyse client, when it goes into WindowsPE mode and you get to the disk partition part, press Shift+F11 to bring up a command prompt and type the following (Pressing enter after each line):

Diskpart 

Select disk 0

Clean

Create Partition Primary

Format quick fs=ntfs label=Windows

Assign Letter=C

active

exit

9. Press F5 and it should show the newly partitioned drive, now continue on as normal selecting the image you want and make it start the installation.

This will get your PXE booting up and running. You can use an unattended.xml file to make the disk partitioning/client domain joining automated but I have not created it yet. Hope this helps anyone else thats been having this issue.

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February 23rd, 2016 15:00

Dell Wyse uses either Wyse Device Manager or the USB Firmware Tool to image our thin client. If you are using another vendor's product to image our thin clients, you may want to contact them to see if they have any instructions on how to accomplish this. Sorry we don't have anything to help you with this.

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