SCCM 2012 PXE Boot

[oloughran]

hi folks,

 

we've not long upgraded to sccm 2012, at the moment i'm still trying to get use to it as i am use to sccm 2007, with our 2007 system we could pxe boot no problem, but with 2012 its proving to be troublesome getting it configured.

 

when i enable pxe support for clients it say WDS will be installed if required, now it does install ok, so my question do i have to configure WDS in server manager or do i leave it for sccm to sort it, at the moment sccm installed WDS once i enabled pxe but the service is stopped if i try to start it i get this error message:

 

"Windows could not start the Windows Deployment Services Server on <server>. for more information, review the system event log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 2310"

 

any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

 

thanks

 

Owen.

[anyweb]

leave WDS alone, configuration manager will configure it for you. Are you using the RTM release of configuration manager 2012 ?

[oloughran]

I think its RTM, we got it as part of a pilot we were involved in with Microsoft.

 

its definitely not a beta version.

[Trevor Sullivan]

Open PowerShell and run this command to get the build number:

 

$Site = Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\sms\site_LAB -ClassName SMS_Site;

$Site | Select-Object -Property BuildNumber,SiteCode;

 

Cheers,

Trevor Sullivan

http://trevorsullivan.net

http://twitter.com/pcgeek86

[Kingen]

Open PowerShell and run this command to get the build number:

 

$Site = Get-CimInstance -Namespace root\sms\site_LAB -ClassName SMS_Site;

$Site | Select-Object -Property BuildNumber,SiteCode;

 

Cheers,

Trevor Sullivan

http://trevorsullivan.net

http://twitter.com/pcgeek86

 

Or just go to "About Configurtion Manager" in the console.

[Rocket Man]

Is WDS and DHCP on the same server?? Normally WDS can fail to start if DHCP runs on the same server as both DHCP and WDS both listen on port 67.

 

If so run this command...... WDSUTIL /set-server /UseDHCPPorts:No /DHCPOption60:yes

 

 

Rocket Man

[oloughran]

Thanks folks for your replies.

 

I've got pxe working i had to uninstall pxe and manually delete the RemoteInstall folder, after i done that i re-enabled pxe which installed wds and i can now pxe boot.

 

Now my next problem that has arisen, i migrated my task sequence from my old sccm 2007 server to my new sccm 2012 server, so on a pc i want to image with our custom os, it pxe boots no problem i get the task sequence menu i select the task i want to run, it kicks off but a few minutes into it i get an error message, see attached (SCCM Error), if i move the error message out of the way i can see another message box, again see attached (SCCM MGS).

 

i don't know what i've done wrong or need to do in the task sequence, so any advice would be great.

 

thanks

 

(the version of sccm 2012 i'm running is - 5.0.7711.0)

 

Owen.