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Good Morning Folks, I'm hoping someone can shed some light for me. I'm wondering how many folders should live inside of the Remoteinstall folder? I currently only have 3 which are SMSBoot, SMSIMAGES, and SMStemp. I noticed that in my other Remoteinstall folder that have been renamed Remoteinstall.old that there are about 5 or 6 more folders. I ask this because I recently had to re-install my PXE Service Point on my Primary server as it was being somewhat flaky and had some errors in the SCCM System Status Node. I followed the guide from here , uninstalled/reinstalled and thought I was good to go. Later on I tried re-imaging a computer, I was able to boot from PXE ( recieved the x64 boot image ) but I recieved the following error after about 30 minutes or so at the step "Setup is Applying System Settings" "Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass {specialize}. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component [Windows-Shell-Setup]" I've used this image and task sequence multiple times in the past and everything went smooth so I'm not sure why I'm now facing this issue. Can anyone guide me in the right direction? Thanks for your time.

Now that I've got my PXE working I'm running into the error of: Failed to run task sequence because the program files cannot be located on a distribution point. In the documentation for RC2 it states to enable the "Copy content to a share on distribution points" but then after that it's vague on where it means when it says "Note: once you have enabled the setting above your Deployment distribution settings gets a new drop down menu choice, access content directly from a distribution point when needed by the running task sequence" Where can I find this and what exactly needs to be done here Disregard, I figured it out.

I have installed a hierarchy SCCM 2012 - CAS-PRI. PXE is enabled. Now, when I PXE boot a Hyper-V VM at first boots fine then goes upto Build and Capture TS selection. Once selected, next I see retrieving policy for this computer, resolving task sequence dependencies and then errors out (in smsts.log: 0x80040102). Attached are few screenshots and SMSts.log file. smsts.log Strange part of the PXE is once I remove computer from the Devices list so that I can retry but VM won't PXE boot until few mins (pic 4). Why? does SCCM takes time to clear out that unknown computer from the system?

I did the following: 1. import the images and files from my SCCM 2012 RC2 server. All were manually imported (Copied the files, and added them manually) 2. set the boot images up but did not deploy them 3. added the pxe role to the server 4. deployed the pxe boot images 5. setup the OS installer for windows 7 6. set up the task list for windows 7 7. set up the image for windows 7 (captured using RC2) 8. set up a collection target 9 deployed the task sequence to the collection 10. added a VM with static mac to the collection 11. tried to pxe boot The VM is not getting DHCP on two subnets it should be getting -- in theory i should be getting another error than it timing out like its not on a network at all. VM is on a Hyper-V 2008 R2 Host. distmgr.log

Hi, I need to setup PXE boot on my vlan for SCCM 2012. We have setup the IP Helper to point to the IP address of the SCCM Site/DP. Where is the file located which I will need for DHCP to give out to the clients to boot from? I'm new to PXE booting in general so I'm a little confused about all this. Here is the location of the file that I'm currently having it boot to \\SCCM\SMS_STK\osd\boot\x64\boot.wim Acutally the other admin did say that when he sets it up he wont be needing the unc path, just the filename of the boot file. I've gone through and enabled PXE boot in SCCM. Currently when my machine tries to boot it gets the following error. PXE-T04: Access Violation PXE-E36: Error received from TFTP server PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM

I'm having an issue imaging one of my desktops. This is a standard Windows 7 64 bit image and I genearally use it a couple times a week with no issue. I have one computer, however, where it just hangs indefinately on the installation of Office. This is the last advertisement shown for my Windows 7 image on this computer (2 days ago). Information Milestone VAN 5/2/2012 4:53:18 PM VAND04601 Software Distribution 10005 Program started for advertisement "VAN20181" ("VAN000EC" - "Office Professional 2010 (x32 Only)"). Command line: "\\abc.def.LOCAL\SMSPKGD$\VAN000EC\setup.exe" /adminfile custom.msp Working directory: \\abc.def.LOCAL\SMSPKGD$\VAN000EC\ User context: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 1464 1296 And when I check the SMS Trace (C:\Program files (x86)\SMS_CCM|smspxe.log) I get multiple lines with this (but no error). Advertisement results: OfferId:VAN20181 OfferTime:02/08/2011 10:38:00 PackageID:VAN00138 BootImageID:VAN00001 PackageVer: PackagePath:\\VCVANSCCM1\SMSPXEIMAGES$\SMSPKG\VAN00001\ Mandatory:0 smspxe 4/24/2012 1:56:12 PM 3532 (0x0DCC)

(PXE Without DHCP worked, NOW* it doesn't) I have a lab with an SCCM server with SQL and another as the Active directory server (2 servers total). These are on a private network and have a Linux DHCP/PXE setup. When i setup SCCM i never setup DHCP but i did setup PXE on the distribution point. I was able to boot up right into the SCCM server's PXE or to the Linux one if i put in a delay on the SCCM server. Last week i was trying to get PXE to chain load from another server (without success so far, but that's another post). On Monday, i look at the setup and I was no longer able to PXE into my SCCM server. Granted, i was mucking around with the settings but... How was it possible that the SCCM server received and handled PXE requests without DHCP? I was under the impression that DHCP was needed. The reason i didn't install DHCP on SCCM is because i was trying to integrate it with the exitsting Linux setup. Kinda stumped on this one...

I'm trying to troubleshoot one of my labs which is having all sorts of PXE issues. I'm comparing it to my other lab that i have functioning. In some of the articles i'm reading, they suggest that i TFTP from command line to test if its working. Well, it isn't in either case and i'm beginning to wonder if it is supposed to and if this troubleshooting step is applicable/viable. Could someone confirm if this is working in their SCCM 2012 setup? Basically what i'm doing is running this command from my DC for example to my SCCM server (distribution point). tfpt -i 192.168.x.x GET \smsboot\x64\pxeboot.com You will need to add TFTP client from the windows features in server manager.

RequestMPKeyInformation: Send() failed. SMSPXE 2012-04-21 14:58:44 4484 (0x1184) Failed to get information for MP: sccm.local 80004005. SMSPXE 2012-04-21 14:58:44 4484 (0x1184) PXE::DB_InitializeTransport failed; 0x80004005 SMSPXE 2012-04-21 14:58:44 4484 (0x1184) PXE::DB_ReportStatus failed; 0x80004005 SMSPXE 2012-04-21 14:58:44 4484 (0x1184) PXE::CPolicyProvider::InitializeDatabaseConnection failed; 0x80004005 SMSPXE 2012-04-21 14:58:44 4484 (0x1184) The certificate is gone, something strange happend to my lab-server. How can I solve this issue? How can I issue a certificate for the SCCM - SQL Found out that my ssl-certificate is missing, Unable to load user-specified certificate [Cert Hash(sha1) "4E40B3552FFAC833C5A30EB589008BBC557FF30E"]. The server will not accept a connection. You should verify that the certificate is correctly installed. See "Configuring Certificate for Use by SSL" in Books Online. How can I re-create the certificate? Is there any chance I can do this from my CA ?

Hi all, First and foremost, I love this site, it is such a fantastic reference guide and a boon to IT people like myself. I'm working on a new image, (actually, the same one I tweeted you about last week, Niall! As it turns out, we'd been using an incorrect NIC driver which was causing the port to take a long time to come online, and the PXE TFTP transfer was timing out as a result), for an HP 8560p Elitebook, and I've gotten it to boot through PXE to WinPE and get through the Apply Driver Package step of my Task Sequence. Install is Failing at Setup Windows and ConfigMgr with the following: -In setupact.log Now, I've looked through SCCM for the driver in accordance with directions found here: http://support.micro....com/kb/2012889 and I don't see this drive, oem79.inf. I decided to look further and discovered that the file in question is johci.inf, a 1394-Firewire driver, which I would not deem boot-critical, though evidently the installer believes this to be the case. I looked in SCCM and can't find a matching driver, but instead find many variants, all of which are signed. I then checked my boot image and this driver is not added to the boot.wim image either. So, before I disable and remove this driver from the Driver Packages for this model, do you guys have any thoughts? Thanks again for all of everyone's help.

good morning everyone. i am in the process of trying to get WDS to work in out live environment. everything works like a charm in the test lab and it is time to move over to live. i have run into a strange issue when PXe booting a PC. well first it does not pxe boot. however i do not get any errors. the PXE boot screen looks like this. CLIENT MAC ADDR (mac address shown) GUID (guid shown) DHCP............................................................................... ........................................................................................ this will go on for as long as i allow it to before hitting esc. so here is what i know. server 2k8r2 DHCP is on different vlan then WDS option 60 and do not listen on port 67 are UNCHECKED on DHCP tab in properties of WDS DHCP and WDS servers have different IP but same subnet all ports on routers are open. if you need any further info please ask. i will be watching this thread for the next 3.5 hours then off and on for the rest of the day. thank you in advance.

Hi Currently using SCCM2007 and have been building many machines without issue. We have recently purchased a large amount of new HP 4535 laptps and are having particulat issues getting them to build on SCCM. Have created the task sequence, collection added the laptop to SCCM ect but when booting to image the laptop it fails. The laptop PXE boots and loads WinPE but then on prepares itself and just reboots. I have got into the command prompt in PE and can see that it is not connecting to the network so tried to inject the Realtek GBE family drivers into the boot image both within SCCM and using the ImageX command and no matter which drivers i pick it seem to fail to add them into the image. Any suggestions? Thanks

Greetings all, This is a great website! I am testing an implementation of SCCM2012 RC2 and all task sequences are failing regardless of what task I attempt. I've attached the log file from the pxe booted machine. From what I can tell, WinPE is unable to communicate with the MP (MNCMP.OTC.EDU). The test environment is running native mode. The machine is getting an IP address. Any thoughts? smsts.log

Hi there, I'm pretty new to SCCM so this might be an easy problem. A couple of days ago our Operating System Deployment stopped working. The first sign of that something was wrong was that the WDS service couldn't be restarted. It hung. Even after a reboot of the entire server the service was still not running. After a lot of troubleshooting we also noticed that the image-folders under RemoteInstall\SMSBoot\x64 and RemoteInstal\SMSBoot\x86 were empty. I then got some advice that I should delete the PXE role in SCCM and re-install the WDS service in Windows. So I did: 1) Removed PXE role. 2) Uninstalled WDS. 3) Reboot. 4) Finalize uninstall. 5) Reboot again. 6) Renamed the folder "RemoteInstall". 7) Installed WDS. 8) Rebooted. 9) Added the PXE Role. 10) Rebooted. This i have done twice, the main issue is still there, the folders are still empty. when I try to deploy a PC I just get the error: "PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent". The client recieves an IP from the DHCP but there is no boot-image. In the logfile: pxeMSI.log.LastError i found the following row: "MSI (s) (B0:00) [10:50:25:911]: Windows Installer removed the product. Product Name: SMS PXE Service Point. Product Version: 4.00.6487.2000. Product Language: 1033. Removal success or error status: 0." In the logfile: pxeMSI.log i found the following rows: Property(S): UserExitDialog_Title = Setup Aborted Property(S): UserExitDialog_SubTitle = Setup was cancelled Property(S): UserExitDialog_Info = The SMS PXE Service Point setup was cancelled. Property(S): InstallErrorDialog_Title = Setup Aborted Property(S): InstallErrorDialog_SubTitle = Setup failed Property(S): InstallErrorDialog_Info = Setup encountered an error and could not continue. I have also attached PXESetup.log. Any suggestions and/or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! PXESetup.log

Hi everybody! We have a SCCM 2007 R2 environment with nearly 20 secondary sites under 1 central site. Now it comes to security permissions delegations to the local admin at the local sites that they can do their Windows 7 Rollout. I created a security structure in SCCM with a flat hierarchie of groups in the AD. For the moment it works fine. A few days ago we had the situation that seems to clear all PXE flags to the "All Systems" collections. Many machiens that will get an OS over a Task Sequence were still in the OS Deployment collection (mandentory advertised), that means that these machine would have get a new OS after the next PXE request (default value!). In the end nothing happens, because we noticed that very fast. I just stopped our local WDS Service and deleted the direct membership of the machines in the OSD collections. Pig had I'm very scared about that, because the next time that happens we may be not so fast. The first question that I have: How can I figure out who deleted the PXE flag? I searched in several log files, queried the Status Messages, but nothing. Anybody knows where I can find that? The second interesting is: How can I prevent that a delegated user (also like everybody!) can clear the PXE flags on a completly collection?? (What also might be possible to use a script that the direct membership of the computers will be deleted after a successful OSD. I guess I saw somewhere a script like this...) Thanks in advance! Christian

I have WDS installed on my sccm 2007 server and I have DNS on a seperate server as well as DHCP on a seperate server. My SCCM 2007 is installed well, with no issues from the status. I am having hard time setting up Deployment via PXE. Please help me. I have gone through your step by step instruction, but no luck. At first I had a Pending Request, Now, it can't even find the specified file. What should I do?

Ok, I'm slightly confused (read: very). My environment is as follows (simplified). One primary SCCM server (SVR-SCCM) W2K8r2 with SCCM 2007r3 that is also the PXE server for our Main Office. This site has been doing OSD perfectly. One Remote site (SVR-SITE1) that has it's own subnet, DC (with DHCP), and is a BDP. The Boot Image has been successfully pushed to the remote site. I'm remotely PXE booting machines to do OSD. Here are my steps (simplified) 1) Boot remote computer 2) F12 for boot options 3) Choose "Boot from Onboard NIC" 4) F12 for Network Boot 5) Remote machine pulls wdsnbp.com from the PXE server (this takes about 10-15 minutes remotely) 6) Remote machine pulls boot.wim from PXE server (900 mb file, takes forever) 7) Brings up TS selection wizard Now, Step 6 is what I need assistance with. Am I able to have that boot.wim pull from my BDP? Or can that boot.wim ONLY be pulled from a PXE server? (This is the boot.wim that is in my ConfigMgr Admin Console under OSD->Boot Images.) I'm fairly certain that this should be pulling the boot.wim from the BDP, but I'm not sure. And if that is the case, what steps can I take to troubleshoot it and figure out why it is not pulling from the local BDP? TIA, Erik

After installing pxe I get this pxe.msi exited with return code: 3010 in pxesetup.log. But even after reboot of the server log still shows reboot required Server 2008, sccm 2007 R2 Thanks

Hey everyone, we recently ran into an issue where one of our tech's cleared the pxe advertisement on an entire collection, causing multiple machines to reimage themselves. I have been researching and looking through the logs, but unable to find any details as to who did it, and when. We have our security rights setup where only a select few users (based on AD accounts) have the ability to clear advertisements and am hoping this action is logged somewhere with their username. Does anyone know where these are stored? I have also looked through some of the available Reports but can't find much information on PXE Advertisements being cleared. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Hi everyone, Scenario: a SCCM solution an a Wyse Streaming Manager solution coexisting on the same subnet. Problem is that both these soulution is using PXE. Wyse Streaming Manager is a system for streaming OS to Wyse thin clients. And in my case this have to coexist on the same subnet where I want to deploy OS and software to thick clients (laptops and desktops) Is there a solution for making this sceanrio work? As you can see my laptops need to get their PXE to boot into SCCM and the thin clients to boot into the Wyse Streaming manager. There's a headache for ya! At least for me.. :-) Andreas

Hello, I have a question. I have configure a SCCM 2007 and in the Headquater the SCCM a runs. I Deploy Windows 7 with PXE and in the Headquater is all ok. And in the Brach Office i have configure Brach Distribution Point and the Distribution Points runs. And when i add a new Boot Image Packeg to the Distribution Point it run but when I add a new Operating System Image to the Distribution Point in dont runs. And my second question ist when I Deploy the OS Image wia PXE to the Bruches I need a PXE Service Point on the Brach Distribution Point and a WDS??