SCCM 2012 - Boot Images Not Updating

[Spuddyboy]

Hi all,

 

I am currently scratching my head about an issue I am seeing with our SCCM environment.

 

We have been using PXE to deploy laptops within our environment successfully for the last few months (Lenovo T440p/s), but we now have a new model that we need to be able to image (Lenovo T450s).

We have added the NIC drivers (Intel I218-LM) into our boot image and redistributed it to our distribution points, but when we PXE boot the new laptops it doesn’t pick up the correct NIC driver, so doesn’t have any network connectivity.

To test the driver was correct I put it on a USB drive and plugged it into the laptop that had booted into WinPE.

I then loaded the driver using the DRVLOAD command, followed by NETCFG –WINPE. The driver loaded and I was successfully able to connect to the network etc.

 

When looking at the boot image within RemoteInstall\SMSImages on the distribution point, it doesn’t appear that the boot image is being updated with the new drivers, even though the SCCM console is showing that they should be there.

 

I took a copy of the Boot image WIM file and injected the correct drivers into it using DISM. When I tested booting the new laptop from this manually updated boot image, it worked as expected.

 

I have also installed a new distribution point which also had the same issues.

 

I'm hoping someone may be able to shed some light on the problem I am seeing and help me solve it.

 

Thanks in advance.

[simulacra75]

Do you have more than one Task Sequence in your environment? ConfigMgr has a nasty bug whereby when a machine PXE boots it uses the boot image of the most recently edited Task Sequence. I'd check that first. I'd also add the driver to both your x86 and x64 boot images, making sure to add the 32bit driver to the x86 and the 64bit to the x64 (if they're different). Give that a whirl and see what happens.