Windows Deployment service - Boot image question

[edutech4schools]

Just playing with WDS and installed OK. I have a boot image in the boot image folder. As I understand it this boots to the GUI so you can deploy images etc. Is this boot image OS dependent? I used the Server 2008r2\sources folder when asked for an install image but will be mainly wanting to capture and deploy Windows 7.

[sted]

yes you can use any boot image to deploy any os but i genererally use the newest clisnt os version but server will work fine

[Norphy]

As long as the boot image is as new or newer than the OS that you're trying to deploy, that's fine. You will have trouble deploying Windows 8 with a Windows 2008 image for example.

[crc-ict]

Even (as I found out) Windows 8.1 won't deploy with the Windows 8 boot image

[Duke5A]

Even (as I found out) Windows 8.1 won't deploy with the Windows 8 boot image

 

I've observed this as well; 2012R2 will do the same thing. If you try and deploy images at a level under that of an 8.1/2012R2 boot it'll error out in the specialization phase.

[edutech4schools]

Thanks.