How to implement DBAN in a WDS server

Objective:

The purpose of this document is to provide a guide to boot a DBAN image from the WDS server, in order to erase the HDD in a safer way.

Advantages of having DBAN in the WDS menu:

Normally the DBAN is installed onto a pen drive and local team boots from it in each wor kstation they want to erase securely. If there is a need to perform this task in bulk, it will be time consuming, by booting DBAN from the WDS just a network connection to the deploy VLAN is needed, after the machine boots the process run automatically without any user intervention.

Pre-requisites:

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Administrator access to a WDS server.

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Windows server 2012 R2 with MDT 201 3 installed. (Not tested but should work on other OS versions).

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Download the DBAN ISO from website .

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What are we doing? (Technical details):

WDS relies on PXE (Pre-exec ution environment) to display a menu which let you select over a different set of .wim files to deploy the desired image

. There is no way to modify the PXE from Windows and it’s

only managed by GUI, this means that if we want to deploy an OS which is not compressed in a .wim file

we simply can’t. What we will do is adding some files