2. Acme International, Inc. is a leading software solution provider company in the U.S. The company has its head office in Las Vegas with a head count of 2000 employees. The company has various departments, such as Development, Testing, Accounts, Human Resources, Sales, and Operations. All the departments are connected through various network servers. Recently, the company has opened three new branch offices in New York, North Dakota, and California. All the branch offices require 800 new desktop computers configured with Windows 8. Kevin works as a System Administrator in Acme International. He has been assigned the task to deploy Windows 8 on all the new desktop computers remotely from the head office. In addition, he has been given a time period of one month to accomplish the preceding task. To achieve this, Kevin wants to create a Windows 8 image file to deploy it in all the branch offices on time. Help Kevin to create the Windows 8 image file.

To build an OS image in a MBE, you need to perform the following tasks:
1. Install the WDS role.
2. Configure WDS.
3. Add boot image.
4. Add install image.




Task 1. Install the WDS role.
1. Ensure that the server Manager window is open and active.
2. click the add roles and features link. the Before you begin page of add roles and Features Wizard is displayed.
3. click the next button. the select installation type page is displayed.
4. click the next button. the select destination server page is displayed.
5. click the next button. the select server roles page is displayed.
6. select the windows deployment services check box.
7. the add roles and features wizard dialog box is displayed.
8. click the add Features button.
9. click the next button. the select features page is displayed.
10. click the next button. the WDS page is displayed.
11. click the next button. select role services page is displayed.
12. click the next button. the confirm installation selections page is displayed.
13. click the Install button. the Installation progress page is displayed. After a few moments, the installatin succeeded on EBDD_SRV1 message is displayed.
14. click the close button.

Task 2. nConfiguring WDS.
1. select media DVD drive insert disk in the virtual machine connection window. the Open dialog box is displayed.
2. Browse to the D:\EBDD\Softwore folder, and then select the windows8.iso file.
3. click the open button.
4. press the windows key.
5. type computer management, and then press the enter key. the computer management window is displayed.
6. select the disk management node in the left pane.
7. right click the offline option under disk 1 in the middle pane, and then select the online option.
8. right click disk 1, and select the initialize disk option.
9. click the ok button.
10. right click the unallocated space, and then select the new simple volume option.
11. click the next button.
12. click the next button. the assign drive letter or path page is displayed.
13. click the finish button.

Task 3. Adding boot image.
1. Ensure that the EBDD_SRV1.Adatum.com node is expanded in the left pane.
2. right click the boot image node, and then select add boot Image. the file page of add image wizard is displayed.
3. type D:\Sources\boot.wim in the file location text box.
4. click the next button. the image metadata page is displayed.
5. click the next button. the Summary page is displayed.
6. click the next button. the Operation is complete message is displayed.
7. click the finish button.


Task 4. Adding Install image.
1. right click the install image node in the left pane, and then select add install image. the image group page of add image wizard is displayed.
2. ensure that the create an image group named option is selected and imageGroup 1 is displayed in the text box adjacent to the create an image group named option.
3. click the next button. the image file page is displayed.
4. type D:\Sourcer\install.wim in the file location text box.
5. click the next button. the Available images page is displayed.
6. click the next button. the Summary page is displayed.
7. click the next button. the operation is complete message is displayed sfter a few moments.
8. click the finish button.