Restricting install rights for Windows Deployment Services

By default all domain users can deploy images from a WDS server. Can you restrict this so that only members a certain group of users have the right to install image using WDS? The answer is yes and there are two ways you can do this:

    • Use the /UserFilter parameter of the wdsutil /set-image command to control the list of images displayed to a user.

 

  • Use the /Security parameter of the wdsutil /set-imagegroup command to configure access control on file resources for all the images in the group.

 

For more info see the WDSUTIL syntax at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771206(WS.10).aspx

Mitch Tulloch is a seven-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and widely recognized expert on Windows administration, deployment and virtualization. For more tips by Mitch you can follow him on Twitter or friend him on Facebook.

 

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