We have an open license agreement with Microsoft and have about 2500 machines in our organization. We have 4 technicians (need I say more). The purpose of this WDS server is to deliver windows operating systems to our machines with as little intervention as possible. I was attempting to use PXE and WDS to accomplish this goal. Our current automation process uses freeDOS and up until now has worked quite well. Newer laptop (US15) driver file are now using filename greater that 8 characters and as DOS really doesn’t support the namespace we need to handle this process differently. The WDS server is a VM server emulating a single Xeon CPU (E5430 @ 2.66GHz) with 1 Gig of RAM and 32-Bit architecture. I need to point out an error – the server is 2008 standard, not R2. DHCP and DNS are running on one of our Windows 2003 SP2 Domain controllers. Neither DNS nor DHCP are running on the WDS box. All the Nics are running 1 gig. It appears that Hostnames are used over IP, but as the question has not appeared in any of me research I can’t really give a definitive answer. The target machines are Dell Mini 10 laptops (Atom processor using US15 Chipset). I’m still open to suggestions, but the boss has instructed me to find an alternative – flash drive or DVD.