We have launched our new version of Server Wizard on our new embeddedserver.eu website. Server Wizard is a tool that allows you to find an embedded server that suits your needs very easily and quick.

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

Find out more about Windows Embedded Servers on our new dedicated embeddedserver.eu website.

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.

Windows Server 2008 allows you to brand the OOBE and Server Manager.

To brand both you can use the following:

Windows Storage Server 2008 ships with Single Instance Storage – this will enable Storage Server to save space because it will save duplicate files only once. SIS will check all the files on the harddisk for duplicate ones – if they are found it will be saved only once in the Common Store. All files will only link to the physical file in the common store. If one of the duplicate files changes it will be automatically saved phyiscally as new files - no files or content gets lost.

To enable SIS use the following command:

sisadmin /i D:

This video demonstrates you the usage of imagex together with either Windows Vista AIK or Windows 7 AIK.
A detailed command description can be found here.

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.