To find your server all you need to do is answer a few questions and the application will show you matching server results.

If you choose features that one server alone cannot fulfill you will get multiple suggestions. These multiple results are grouped so that you can easily see that you need more than one server.

If you get more than one item within a group please be more specific to reduce the results. You can choose between one of the items within a group – all of these items support the features that you have selected.

The Server Wizard 2.0 can be found on www.embeddedserver.eu/find

The sites target is to help you to find the correct server product and give you basic information about what embedded servers are and for what purpose you can use them.

To brand both you can use the following:

• Install the x64 Compiler for Visual Studio 2008
• Run Visual Studio 2008
• Create a Visual C++ / Win32 Project
• Select DLL
• Click Finish
• Create a new Resource
• Add a String Table Resource
• Enter all the needed texts for you branding
• Add a Bitmap to your resources
• Open the Project Properties
• Open Configuration Manager
• Select Release and Click New in the Platform dropdown
• Select x64 as Platform
• Click OK
• Click OK
• Compile the project
• Copy the output file to the target system into the Windows\system32 directory.
• Use the following XML sample and adapt the filename to your dll filename:
  

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <ServerUIExtension ResourceDllPath="%SystemRoot%\system32\OOBERes.dll">
      <Extension Name="InitConfig" HeaderTitleId="101" HeaderDescriptionId="101">
      <Section Id="1">
          <Task Id="TimeZone" Hide="true" />
      </Section>
          <Section TitleId="106" BrandingImageId="#102">
              <Task Url="http://www.elbacom.com" LinkId="102" ToolTipId="103" />
              <Task LinkId="104" Command="notepad.exe" ToolTipId="105" StatusLabelId="105" />
          </Section>
      </Extension>
      <Extension Name="ServerManagerHome" HeaderTitleId="101" HeaderDescriptionId="101">
          <Section TitleId="106">
              <Task Url="http://www.elbacom.com" LinkId="102" ToolTipId="103" />
              <Task LinkId="104" Command="notepad.exe" ToolTipId="105" StatusLabelId="105" />
          </Section>
      </Extension>
      <Extension Name="FileServerRole" HeaderTitleId="101" HeaderDescriptionId="101">
          <Section TitleId="101">
              <Task LinkId="107" Command="mmc.exe" ToolTipId="107" StatusLabelId="107" />
              <Task Url="http://www.elbacom.com" LinkId="102" ToolTipId="103" />
          </Section>
      </Extension>
  </ServerUIExtension>

• Copy the XML file to the Windows\system32 directory
• Open regedit and navigate to the following registry key:
• Enter the full path to the XML file as value (e.g.: C:\\Windows\\system32\\Branding.xml)
• Close all OOBE and Server Managers
• Start OOBE or Server Manager
• If the Branding has been applied you are done – if not see check the log file located in
     C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\ServerManager

Possible Error codes:

Failed to load Extensible resources. The resource dll C:\Windows\system32\OOBERes.dll could not be loaded. Last error = 193

   The dll is not compiled for the target systems architecture. e.g. Windows is x64 and the dll is x86
   Solution: Compile the dll according the systems architecture

Failed to load Extensible resources. The resource dll C:\Windows\system32\OOBERes.dll could not be loaded. Last error = 14001

   The dll needs additional dependencies. e.g. it has been compiled using VS2008.
   Solution: Install the VC9 Redistributable package. If this does not resolve the issue check dependencies using Dependency Walker.

A video showing the whole branding process:

To enable SIS use the following command:

sisadmin /i D:

Note: SIS cannot be enabled on the system drive!

To enable SIS on the drive enter the following command:

sisadmin /e D:

To start checking for duplicate files run the following command:

sisadmin /r

To list the current files which are stored only once use the following command:

sisadmin /l D:

To uninstall SIS use the following command – this will convert all links back to files!

sisadmin /u D:

Here is a video demonstrating SIS:

The video shows the capturing of an installed “ready-to-clone” image where it will be saved to an external harddrive.
The second part will show the deployment to a fresh system where the target disk still needs to be prepared.