SCCM 2012 & existing WDS

[rusty]

Hi,

First let me say Thank You for sharing your knowledge. I've learned a great deal from this forum.

Now the question :-)

I've got an existing WDS (2008R2) to deploy images to computers. Now looking to implement SCCM2012. How do I intergrate the two systems without install/enable WDS role on SCCM2012?

I still want to use PXE boot that's already implemented with WDS. Is ther a way to get SCCM 2012 to understand and use the existing WDS? I hope this makes sense.

 

Thanks

Rusty

[BB24]

If you already have a dedicated server that is functioning as the WDS role, you do not need to enable the role on the SCCM 2012 server/DPs. Instead all you will need is to build boot images (.wim files) from the SCCM 2012 environment using the 2012 toolkit. Within the image it will then know which server(s) to get the policies, task sequences, etc.

 

For example in our environment we have a SCCM 2007 environment and brought up SCCM 2012. We have a dedicated WDS server with both 2012 and 2007 boot images presented in the PXE menu. Depending on which image is selected it then contacts the appropriate servers for advertisements/deployments/task sequences. (I know MS doesn't support this mixed environment, but our experience suggests it still works).

 

If you are asking about using the PXE service on your existing 2007 sccm server, I defer to others.