During a late-night deployment window you receive forty identical rack-mounted servers that ship with blank drives and no optical devices. Corporate policy also forbids attaching removable flash media inside the data-center floor, but each server's UEFI firmware is already configured to attempt a PXE boot before local-disk boot. You need to deploy Windows Server 2022 to all forty hosts with the fewest possible physical touches. Which media installation type best meets these requirements?
Network installation initiated by PXE
Optical (DVD) installation
USB flash-drive installation
Embedded installation from an internal flash module
A network installation initiated over PXE lets each server boot across the 10 GbE fabric, download the installation files from a central share, and begin an unattended setup-without any technician inserting USB sticks or DVDs. Embedded flash modules would still have to be individually imaged, and both USB and optical media violate the stated constraints or are physically unavailable. Therefore, choosing a network-based installation satisfies the time, policy, and hardware limitations while scaling to dozens of hosts simultaneously.
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