The Windows PE boot images may be either 32- or 64-bit, but 32-bit tends to be more universally compatible across all potential hardware types.
The process of adding drivers to the Windows PE boot image can be automated using the WDS server console: This process can be repeated at a later time when a new system type needs to be captured but the current Windows PE Capture boot image does not include network drivers for it.
This alternate script is selected within WDS by viewing the properties of each uploaded system image.
It is technically possible to create scripts that manually perform the imaging, capture, and apply processes, using command line tools provided by Microsoft.
Microsoft generally requires Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7 to be sysprepped before imaging, due to certain security-related disk data that Microsoft requires to be unique across duplicated system images.
Separate Windows command line tools such as diskpart are needed to define partitions on the target system for imagex to use.