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Windows Server 2012 R2 Deployment (HP DL360p Servers): Most efficient and fastest way to deploy to racks full of servers?

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Our company has several offsite datacenters (remote). We also have a small datacenter onsite (physically accessible to our Engineers) for lab use, as well as for "staging" and building out physical servers (Windows, VMware, Linux, etc.), etc. then shipping them off to the appropriate locations (around the world). But let's just focus on Windows for this discussion.

At the moment we are using a Windows Server 2012 R2 image on a flash drive to boot to. You select your options (we have pre-defined), and the rest is automated from there. Right now the WHOLE build time takes about 1 hour to complete.

NOTE: This whole process and the way we do it was done before I started, so as the newer guy, I'm looking into better ways.

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HP DL360p (rack mount servers).

QUESTION
What is the most efficient way to deploy our image and configuration to lets say 20+ (or more) physical servers at a time, instead of
doing one at a time with a flash drive?

I know there are a lot of different ways/options, but I wanted to get all of your opinions and experiences on how you have done/currently are doing this kind of process?
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