Network Storage becomes popular in recent years even among PC users. More and more users would like to backup computer to NAS or network shared folders to save local disk space. Therefore, it is necessary to deploy the Win 7 image over the network because someone has a backup image saved there. For example, it is not uncommon to deploy Windows 7 system image to different hardware in people's daily life.
What's more, administrators in large or middle sized company need to deploy Windows image on a large scale now and then. Deploy the image from network saves the time of booting up each computer one by one as well as the time of creating bootable device for possibly dissimilar hardware. Another aspect for restoring Windows image from network would be in the situation the target PC neither has CD/DVD Drive nor supports booting from USB. Thus, to deploy Windows 7 image from network is the best solution, which will save budget and effort during the process.
Using either System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) or Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), masses of complicated operations and command line types are inevitable. Sometimes, it is not the complex process scares you but the disastrous effect you may make during the process. As a result, finding reliable deploying software not only ensures the success rate but also lowers the potential risk.
Qiling Image Deploy (AID) is a professional image deployment and network cloning software that strives to make complicated deployment processes simpler. It supports deploying images or restoring images to multiple computers over a network. No need to use CD/DVD or USB to boot target computer because it will create WinPE in the installation directory automatically. If there is no DHCP server in the LAN, just enable its built-in one.
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✍ Preparations:
◉ Create a system image backup or disk backup with Qiling Disk Master. If you are concerned about SID conflict errors, you can deploy the image without the SID.
◉ Select a fully functioned machine running Windows PC system or Windows Server system as server computer, and the machines that need to be deployed are called client computers. Please check and make sure the server computer and all the client computers are on the same network segment of the same LAN.
◉ Please confirm the NIC (also known as network adapter) in all the client computers supports PXE boot.
◉ Please confirm the sequence number of the destination disks that are used for image deployment is the same. It is recommended to remove all other disks in the client computer but only keep the destination disk for image deployment.
Tips:
This is the strategy that needs only master PC, client PC and network storage with Windows image on in the process of deploying Windows 7 image over network. As covered, Qiling Image Deploy (AID) is specialized Windows image deployment software so it is good Windows 10 deployment tool. Deploying Windows image to multiple computers is particularly important in upgrading operating systems in companies, AID definitely is the best choice for admins.