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You are not going to believe this ...... Just now I tried to start the WDS, and it runs again ..... The last thing I did what you asked me to do the 17th, nothing else but checking the logs ... I am sorry that I can't give you guys the solution (other than retry to start it after a few days)!! Anyway, thank you very much for your time Anyweb, and a happy new year to yall!!!

Hello Anyweb, I might have found something (no, it's not working yet ...) I found the first error in the WDS-log, so after the capture of the laptop when WDS didn't want to start up anymore: 1. Error 1811 BINLSVC - an error occurred while checking for existence or creation of Service Control Point for BINLSVC Provider 2. Error 261 WDSXPE 3. Error 265 WDSXPE 4. Error 513 WDSSERVER Before these entries, everything worked just fine. I had some errors and an occasional warning prior to these ones, but the WDS worked ... Error 266 WdsImgSrv - An error occurred while refreshing settings (Error info: 0x3A) Warning 1291 BINLSVC - An image in the WIM file D:\remoteInstall\..... does not have a System Root defined. The WDS server wil use \\windows as the default ... Especially the 1811 error troubles me, I haven't got a clue why this problem occurred all of a sudden ... and very little info about this on the net (could be that I'm not looking in the right place ...) I hope this info can help resolve this really annoying problem. Thanks!

Hello Anyweb and thanks for your time! The OS the server is running is Windows 2008 standard SP2 - 32bit (fully updated) Roles installed: DHCP and WDS Role services installed: Deployment server and Transport server WDS service startup type: Manual. I changed in automatic, automatic (delayed), ... same result Error ID's : 257-258-513. 513 says:"An error occured while trying to initialize provider WdsImgSrv from c:\windows\system32\WdsImgSrv.dll. Windows deployment server will be shut down... And like I said, it just stopped all of a sudden (after a capture), and no way to restart it ... Thanks again!

Hello Anyweb, Sorry for the late reply, a little holyday ... I did what you suggested, but it doesn't work .... By the way, I didn't find anything in c:\windows\temp concerning WDS ... So I get the same error, ID 257, error info: 0xc1030104. Keywords: Classic. I'm seriously thinking about re-formatting the server; but on the other hand, after all the troubles I've had with SCCM (the WDS part) and the WDS server now, would it still be worth the work? Maybe I'll search for another solution ... BUT I still want to try and fix this problem and get my WDS to work again ... Many thanks again!

Hello Any and All, I have a problem, and I hope someone can explain how this can happen. My WDS server has been working for almost half a year now, made tens of different images (Custom xp's, vista's, win7, 2K3&2K8 servers, ...), deployed much more. Works like a charm! Untill yesterday .... Captured a laptop XP image, and all of a sudden the WDS service stopped ... and no way to start it anymore. This is the exact same problem that I had with SCCM. Problem with SCCM is that when this wds stopped, I had to do a lot of stuff (take server out of domain, uninstall stuff, install stuff again, put back in domain, restart a few times ... iow no good for a server) EVERY time I captured an image. So I choose for a simpel solution: 1 win2K8 server with ONLY DHCP and WDS server. In the mean time, I've uninstalled ALL roles & services, but WDS is not starting anymore... The only thing left is to re-install the whole server, but that can't be right, no? I've also updated the server, but to no avail ... I dunno what more I can do. Hereby attached, the errors. I really hope that someone can help me figure this out!! Thanks in advance...

Hi AnyWeb, thanks for this excellent Guide! I followed your guide step by step, then I had to inject some drivers to an image, all of that works finally. It's a bit confusing to me what image to use to make a custom boot.wim, and how to add it in WDS. But ok, after 2 days I found it. But now there's something bothering me: When I look in the boot images, I see 2 deployment images ... This I don't understand ... Could you tell me which is the correct one to use? And can I delete the other one?? (See attached JPG) You'll see "WDS-Custom500B Deployment" twice, with 2 different dates, while I made only 1 Deployment image on 23/07 ... I'm a bit stumped here ... dunno which image to use ... Could you help me please? Many thanks!!

IT WORKS!! Djeezes what a waste of time and energy ... The test environment was in a range that is within our boundaries, but doesn't have FULL access to the rest of the network ... That was the first thing I asked our network manager but that wasn't the problem as he said. So now I put my server and client in our "normal" network and it works!!! I should charge him a months work ... Alright, now I've captured the WIM, but when the client re-installs, I have to fill in everything (company, key, keyboard layout, IP-address, ....) just like a clean install. That's not what I need, it has to install fully automatic. Could anyone provide me a link to some info about that? Thanks!!

Hi guys, just a wild guess here, but could it have something to do with the WDS filter? I editted it to the collection where the capture is supposed to go. Is that correct?

Hi Peter, happy new year to you and all on this forum. Well, once the TS capture starts, it doesn't go on and the client restarts. After restarting I can see that the IP-address is correct, but no gateway and DNS-suffix is present though I filled it in (in DHCP-Options and in my TS). So no, I can't resolve my servername and can't connect to the share of the DP. But everything before that seems to work without any problem. It's just when SCCM needs to capture the OS that the TS stops ...

Well, no luck ... even with our domain admin account, doesn't work ...

Goodmorning Mr van der Woude, Thanks for your help ... but the link says "Page not Found" ... I saw the same thing in the log, but I don't know where to check these credentials. You wouldn't happen to have a link to a site where we can see which user is used for what in SCCM? Thanks for your time!

Some more info: After the install deployment tools fails, the client restarts and I can see that the NIC is installed with the correct IP I gave. But there's no gateway and no DNS-Suffix in the LAN-properties. The client also enabled the firewall ... I read it could be a driver problem, so I downloaded all possible NIC-drivers for HP DX2420 (XP), and copied the whole SWSETUP-folder from the exact same machine. (For HP, this folder contains all drivers, also the NIC-drivers so this should work) But it hangs at the exact same point ...

One more thing that could be of importance: I didn't extend the AD scheme as I'm not allowed to do that; But I manually added the server in WINS, and manually added the system management container ... Gave everyone full control to that container ... For Your Info

Goodmorning to y'all! Well, it didn't work ... got a task sequence error 0x00000002. When I look in SMSTS.LOG I still see "unknown host", but I got a lot further than before. Now the installation fails at the "Install Deployment Tools" Other thing I see in the log is "Failed to connect to ""\\MySCCMServer\SMSPKGC$\SMS00029" (53) - No credentials available for connecting to SMSPKGC$ ... Where do I check these credentials SCCM is using for this part? smsts.log If someone could give me a clue to solve this error plz (PS: That SMSTrace program is really great!) Thanks!

Meneer van der Woude, I think that did it! Or at least I'm a step further. Problem : DHCP Expl: as we work only in a fixed-ip environment, I had to set up my DHCP server with a few reservations within our scope, and put a fictive MAC-address to each reserved address. This because we have people here who take their laptops home and there they get an address from their DHCP. So when they come back to work, they'll have to get their fixed IP back in order for their laptop to function in our environment, and not an address issued by my DHCP-server. So I configured one reserved address with the MAC-address from my client, and sure it PXE-boots. But what didn't I do : I didn't apply my DNS settings in the reservation options for the IP-address I reserved for this operation ... (see attached picture) Even if this doesn't work, I'm still very gratefull to you for pointing out this error to me to get me a step further!! I'll let you guys know how things went ... (going home now) Thanks again!!