I needed to install WDS on 300+ servers, but found that the server build did not have a local copy of the operating system configuration or service pack files. I also wanted to reset the paths to the original values.

I started by adding all the files required by WDS to the DFS and created the following batch file.

**********START**********

@ECO OFF

REG EXPORT “HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionSetup” %WINDIR%InstallWDS.reg /y

REG ADD “HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionSetup” /v “SourcePath” /t REG_SZ /d “SERVERNAMESHARE” /f

REG ADD “HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionSetup” /v “ServicePackSourcePath” /t REG_SZ /d “SERVERNAMESHARE” /f

SEE | Look for “Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.” > nul

If %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 GoTo Win2003

VER | Find “Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.” > nul

If %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 GoTo Win2008

GoTo CleanUp

:Win2003

ECHO [Components] > %WINDIR%InstallWDS.inf

ECHO RemInst=enabled >> %WINDIR%InstallWDS.inf

Sysocmgr.exe /i:sysoc.inf /u:%WINDIR%InstallWDS.inf

go to cleaning

:win2008

ServerManagerCmd -install WDS

go to cleaning

:Clean up

REG IMPORT %WINDIR%InstallWDS.reg

DEL %WINDIR%InstallWDS.inf

DEL %WINDIR%InstallWDS.reg

**********FINAL**********

The basic steps are:

1) Backup the registry key in “InstallWDS.reg”

2) Set the cache paths for the OS and service pack files (SERVERNAMESHARE, which is the UNC path to the files)

3) Run the command to install the component on the detected operating system. Note that for Windows 2003 a file called “InstallWDS.inf” is created.

4) Restore the registry key backup from step 1

5) Remove “InstallWDS.inf” required by Windows 2003

6) Delete the backup file of the registry key “InstallWDS.reg”

This bundle can be easily modified to install virtually any Windows component