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On March 21, the first day of MMS 2011, I announced the immediate availability of the Deployment Research blog and Deployment Research Facebook page. Sites filled with video-tutorials on how to deploy operating systems. Information about this new site, as well a bunch of other deployment related community sites was by the way also printed (thank you FedEx) and put in the attendee-bag (Thank you Microsoft) for every MMS 2011 attendee, about 4000 people.

This also means that the deployvista.com blog will not be much active anymore. It will still exist, but the content will gradually be migrated over to the new site, cleaned-up and converted into the new format…

Happy deployment, and I hope to see you online in the forums…

Regards / Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP – Setup & Deployment
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 WDS F11 Server Selection Feature... It's undocumented, it's unsupported - but really cool Minimize
Location: BlogsJohan Arwidmark    
Posted by: johan 9/29/2009

There is a little known Server Selection Feature in WDS in Windows Server 2008 R2. Its not documented, it's not supported by Microsoft. But its very useful for lab and test scenarios...

How to enable it?  Simply go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\WDSServer\Providers\WDSPXE\Providers\BINLSVC and set AllowServerSelection to 1.

Then restart the Windows Deployment Service. After doing this you get the option tp press F11 and the PXE client will now discover local PXE Servers and allow you to select which one you want to use.

Here are some Screenshots of the feature:

Image 1: Initial PXE Boot Screen

Image 2: The discovery process

Image 3: Selecting the server
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