Deployment Guide

Creating WinPE Image and Updating Install Media for Windows 2012 and

Windows 2012 R2

To create WinPE Image and update Install Media for Windows 2008, Windows 2012 and Windows 2012

R2:

1. Log in to the ASM virtual appliance and copy the scripts build-razor-winpe.ps1 and razor-client.ps1

from the /opt/razor-server/build-winpe directory to a folder created in the ADK machine. For

example, ADK machine directory may be c:\buildpe.

2. In the

razor-client.ps1 file, replace ${server} with the IP address of your ASM virtual appliance in

the following code:

$baseurl = http://${server}:8080/svc

After completing this task, the following line is displayed.

$baseurl = http://192.168.0.17:8080/svc

You should have Windows Assessment and Deployment toolkit that contains the Windows PE

environment used to automate the Windows installer installed in the DEFAULT location on a

Windows machine. Licensing for Windows PE requires that you build your own customized WinPE

WIM image containing the required scripts.

NOTE

• If any additional drivers are required, add the drivers under the drivers

folder. The drivers are

installed into the Windows image, if applicable. The drivers that do not apply to the OS

being processed are ignored.

• If you want deploy Windows to VMWare VMs, the WinPE drivers for the VMXNET3 virtual

network adapter from VMWare required. The instructions for obtaining a VMXNET3 driver

from VMWare are listed below.

• If you deploy Windows to an M420 server, drivers for Broadcom network adapters must be

added to the image, as they are not included in Windows. The instructions for including

these drivers are listed below. Obtain these device drivers from Dell.com.

• Native driver support for Windows 2008 is limited, so obtain the latest NIC and RAID drivers

for Windows 2008 from Dell.com

• If you deploy Cisco servers, make sure to obtain appropriate device level from Cisco for the

OS, which you are trying to deploy.

The install scripts require the default location for the ADK. This package is obtained from

Microsoft.

3. Copy the

build-razor-winpe.ps1 and razor-client.ps1 scripts created to a directory on your machine

with ADK 8.0 or 8.1 installed in the default location as described in step 1.

4. Obtain a copy of the Broadcom Drivers for an m420 server from dell.com and install the driver

package on a Windows 2012 or 2012 R2 machine. Locate the Windows install drivers on the files

ystem and copy them to the

Drivers folder created in the step 3. These drivers typically start with

"b57".