Automated Deployment Services (ADS)

Microsoft Automated Deployment Services (ADS) is a deployment framework used to remotely and automatically deploy operating systems in the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 families, as well as to configure, maintain, and manage servers.

ADS provides a remote deployment infrastructure that consists of tools and technologies that can install an operating system on a "bare metal" server or re-provision an existing server with a different OS image.

The following are high level tasks that ADS can perform: