Installing the Microsoft Windows Automated Installation Kit

The Microsoft Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) enables BMC Server Automation to create WinPE images that serve as a preboot environment during provisioning of Windows packages.

This topic includes the following sections:

If you are not creating Windows boot images, skip this section.

Prerequisites

BMC recommends installing AIK on the same server with the PXE server; however, it is not mandatory that the PXE server and Windows AIK be on the same server.

The RSCD agent must be running on the TFTP server while you are generating boot images with the BMC Server Automation image generator. However, during AIK installation, PXE server and TFTP server availability is not required.

Required software

Windows Automated Installation Kit version 2.1 (use AIK version 3.0 for Windows Server 2008 R2).

Required steps

  1. On the target server, run the Windows AIK setup file from the installation CD or ISO image.
  2. For installation path, specify a path name that does not contain spaces. For example, use C:\WAIK.
  3. You can accept other defaults for the installation.

 

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