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That's very clear. Thanks. In my scenario however it wasn't the case. Its embarassing to admit, but I rebooted the SCCM server and all my clients began to pull images. If I've learned one thing during this excercise, its that if there is a seemingly inexplicable problem, reboot the server! That's saved me on a couple occassions. Thanks for your efforts Marcus!

Hello Marcus, Thanks for the reply. You're correct in that the computers are simply plugged into an existing downstream switch. Nothing special about the ports at all. Are there specific requirements for switches in order to permit multiple PXE boots? I've never played with this before. The DHCP scope has sufficient addresses for these machines. Many thanks. Kevin

Hello. I'm getting further with my testing of SCCM 2007 R2 for OSD but have hit a road block. When I have more than one client PC powering up (using unknown computer support), the first computer will recieve an IP address via PXE boot. Any computers powering after the first don't receive an IP address and therefore abort the PXE boot imaging process. Can someone direct me as to how to get around this? The DHCP server is on a different computer running W2003 server as a DC. Thanks.

I've seen several topics that come close to what I need, but nothing that addresses my specific requirements. I'm very new to SCCM 2007 R2 (or any version for that matter!)so please forgive me if these tasks are obvious. I have 225 new computers that I need to roll out. I have OSD working with a base image and it successfully deploys to a computer on a one-off basis. What I would like to do is: 1. Deploy to all these computers: Should I use the "unknown computers" functionality of R2? We don't have a list of MAC addresses so I can't easily import the machines using Computer Associations. 2. I would like to deploy the machines to a domain with incrementing computer names (computerA would be named XXXX-01, computerB named XXXX-02, etc). What's the best/easiest way to do this? Thanks in advance.