“Captain Literal”.NET

You can speed up your image deployments with Automated Deployment Services (ADS) by adding the parameter -nonetencrypt to the /imaging/imgbmdeploy.exe task as shown in the following example:

<!– download images –>
<task description=”Download image”>
<command>/imaging/imgbmdeploy.exe</command>
<parameters>
<parameter>imagename</parameter> <!– image to be deployed–>
<parameter>\device\harddisk0\partition1</parameter> <!– deploy to partition1 –>
<parameter>-r</parameter> <!– specifies deploy mode –>
<parameter>-client</parameter> <!– required parameter –>
<parameter>-nonetencrypt</parameter> <!– turn off encryption –>
</parameters>
</task>

Of cause, this does mean that images are deployed without encryption, so only use this if you trust the LAN in your data centre.

One final caveat with this option is that there is no interface in Sequence Editor to support it and setting this option (using Notepad or similar) results in Sequence Editor freaking out when you try to open the sequence.

I have noticed a 60% deployment time reduction with this switch on and a massive drop in CPU usage on my Image server.Happy deploying!

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