3.1.1 Abstract Data Model
This section describes a conceptual model of possible data organization that an implementation maintains to participate in this protocol. The described organization is provided to facilitate the explanation of how the protocol behaves. This document does not mandate that implementations adhere to this model as long as their external behavior is consistent with that described in this document.
image group: Collection of OS images grouped under an image group. Each image group is identified by a unique name, and access to OS images in the image group is controlled by image group access control list.
image group access control list: An access control list that specifies which client identities have read permissions for the image group.
image store: Collection of image groups. All files and folders for image groups and OS images in an image group are made available by the server using a network share<35>
WDS server configuration: Configuration information for a server, in persistent storage, in the form of (name, value) pairs. The list of metadata information can be found in section 3.1.1.1.
driver package store: Persistent storage where files and metadata for each driver package is stored. All files for driver packages are made available by the server using a network share<36>
status messages log: A persistent storage where all status messages received from clients are stored.
deployment agent unattend store: A persistent storage where unattended instructions for the deployment agent for each processor architecture are stored.
computers in active directory domain: Configuration information for each client machine is stored in the Active Directory domain.
users in active directory domain: Configuration information for each user is stored in the Active Directory domain.
computers in a custom computer data store: Configuration information for each client machine can be stored in a custom data store remotely on the server machine, or locally on the server machine, in a format other than the Active Directory domain.