Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a set of services and APIs to facilitate Windows operating system installation by using PXE, DHCP and TFTP to bootstrap WinPE, the Windows Preinstallation Environment. You can think of it as providing similar functionality to iPXE with server-side scripting, where clients are served boot configuration and images based on various criteria, such as hardware architecture.
This appnote is about chainloading WDS from iPXE in a straight-forward manner.
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