Windows Deployment Services a.k.a WDS in short allows to capture an image of a pre-configued laptop and deploy it to multiple ones at the same time. Imagine doing 30 laptops ONE. BYE ONE. Every program, every configuration, manually... No thanx k bye. Thank god for that Microsoft.. I salute (and every other IT sysadmin) you! I was only able to do 8 at a time but with a 10 gig switch and every laptop connected with cat 6 this would take 5 minutes... not a bloody hour. If you configure the unattended installation and OOBE the WDS lands you on the desktop- only thing left to do is join it to the Wi-Fi :)

Puts quite a strain on my NIC...