For those intrested in Multicasting for imagex

[p4ntb0y]

Some new features to come with Windows Server 2008

I have to check out the Beta 3 or go next door and ask M$ for it :-)

Happy times ahead this is going to make my life easier.

New MGMT tasks in the WDS MMC and WDSUTIL

New WDS Client UI page indicating multicast transmission

Real-time multicast client view + ability to remove clients from a transmission via WDS MGMT tools

Real-time transmission progress / monitoring via WDS MGMT tools

Installation logging and reporting via Crimson to the application logs (read: this is how you can get installation metrics / tracking!)

Ability to install a “stand-alone” WDS multicast server complete with MGMT tools (command-line via WDSUTIL) and CMD-line client

Imagine “always on” multicast where clients can request an image at any point in time and trigger a new multicast deployment or join mid-transmission to an existing deployment and still receive all the data. The WDS Team built a brand-new multicast protocol to handle both scenarios that has congestion control and flow control, making it more “TCP-like” and able to play well on production networks without saturating links and interfering with existing traffic.

Extensibility points were strongly considered in the architectural solution and were built into the client, server, and MGMT toolset's. Also, the ability to perform ImageX multicast deployments without requiring full-blown WDS or Active Directory are enabled. Complete with a CMD-line multicast client app that can run within Longhorn Server Windows PE, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP2 and easy set-up or configuration on the WDS Server.

[IcemanND]

:whine: But I want it now!!! :whine:

sigh, in a perfect world it would all be available all at once.

I gues this gives me time to convince the powers above to finally stand up a deployment server and maybe even turn on the ability to perform network booting.

[dexter.inside]

Did anyone actually test the WIM multicast?