pcarroll Posted July 4, 2011 Report post Posted July 4, 2011 I am having problems trying to install the PXE service point. I have had it installed correctly in the past however due to some errors with another PXE service I had on another machine I had to remove this service point from SCCM for a short time. I am now trying to re-install it however it will not install properly. The service point is showing under the site systems (I only have 1) however nothing is being added to the component status, and no pxesetup.log file is being created. I have been through the process posted here http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2011/01/05/troubleshooting-the-pxe-service-point-and-wds-in-configuration-manager-2007.aspx to fully remove WDS and the PXE service point, then through the instructions to install it, however no matter how many times I try no log file is generated and nothing gets configured automatically in WDS. I also cannot see anything in the event viewer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Sullivan Posted July 5, 2011 Report post Posted July 5, 2011 Hello there, First of all, just for the sake of clarification, nothing is supposed to be configured in WDS after you install the PXE Service Point SCCM role. If you sort your SCCM site server Logs folder by modified date/time, are any logs getting changed when you initiate the installation of the PXE service point? Hope this helps. Cheers, Trevor Sullivan http://trevorsullivan.net http://twitter.com/pcgeek86 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcarroll Posted July 6, 2011 Report post Posted July 6, 2011 Hi Trevor, Thanks for the reply. I wasn't aware that the WDS service shouldn't be configured at all, I thought that part of the PXE service point install would be that it configures and starts running WDS for you? I've just reinstalled the PXE service point and the following log files were edited during the process. Let me know if there is anything you need to see from them. hman.log mpcontrol.log smsdbmon.log sender.log policypv.log ddm.log inboxmgr.log sitestat.log sitectrl.log offersum.log compsumm.log ccm.log The smspxe.log file has not been made in the SMS_CCM folder. The only way I can get it to generate this log file is if I run the pxe.msi manually. I have attached the log file generated if I run pxe.msi Hello there, First of all, just for the sake of clarification, nothing is supposed to be configured in WDS after you install the PXE Service Point SCCM role. If you sort your SCCM site server Logs folder by modified date/time, are any logs getting changed when you initiate the installation of the PXE service point? Hope this helps. Cheers, Trevor Sullivan http://trevorsullivan.net http://twitter.com/pcgeek86 smspxe.log Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcarroll Posted July 20, 2011 Report post Posted July 20, 2011 Still not been able to get any further on this. Anyone have any ideas? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Sullivan Posted July 27, 2011 Report post Posted July 27, 2011 You mentioned the sitectrl.log was getting modified ... I'd check that out, since the Site Control File (SCF) controls SCCM site roles (such as the PXE Service Point deployment). Hope this helps. Cheers, Trevor Sullivan http://trevorsullivan.net http://twitter.com/pcgeek86 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibrafe Posted August 24, 2011 Report post Posted August 24, 2011 Hello there, First of all, just for the sake of clarification, nothing is supposed to be configured in WDS after you install the PXE Service Point SCCM role. If you sort your SCCM site server Logs folder by modified date/time, are any logs getting changed when you initiate the installation of the PXE service point? Hope this helps. Cheers, Trevor Sullivan http://trevorsullivan.net http://twitter.com/pcgeek86 After going through all the steps. when you go back to WDS, Should it show as not configured? This is what confuses me. I can see the boot images loaded on the remnist folder and I can PXE boot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted August 25, 2011 Report post Posted August 25, 2011 That's correct. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnclin Posted June 18, 2013 Report post Posted June 18, 2013 Can I PXE boot with WDS, and NOT have SCCM installed on the server at all? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter van der Woude Posted June 19, 2013 Report post Posted June 19, 2013 Yes, that is possible if you're not using SCCM for your deployments. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
