SCCM2012/WDS Question

Capt Doufos

Capt Doufos

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I have been told that opening the WDS boot image console on a server running an SCCM 2012 PXE boot enabled share will wipe out the SCCM 2012 images. I can't find anything to suggest that is the case.

Is it correct or is someone talking testicles?

Thanks
 
Not that I recall, the WDS is still used even when you have sccm as a pxeboot server. You just don't add any boot images to WDS like you do when you don't have sccm. As far as I remember the boot images are handled in sccm. Unless you are suggesting that sccm has a pxe boot server that i am not aware of, i only used 2007 i think it was.
 
No, our solution is provided by the GlobalIT dept and PXE boot wasn't working, so I sent them some diag info including the fact I couldn't see the images in WDS (I was under the impression it was still listed in there but maybe not).

\start rant

I have no admin access to the server, view only and they came back with images were wiped because I went into the Boot image management console in WDS. Which I find it hard to believe even if I actually even had write access. So the story goes they put it all back and it now mysteriously works, presumably because there were no images there in the first place and there now are.

I just think they are talking rubbish, but I don't have a test environment to prove it with. Although I am tempted to build one specially! I certainly can't find any TechNet articles that back there story up.

It's kind of tempting to go in there again and see if it still works, but that isn't very professional :D

/close rant
 
From my experience simply opening the sccm or wds or mdt will not wipe anything no matter what user creds you open it with. To remove boot images you would have to right click on the boot image, whether its in wds or mdt or sccm and specifically remove it.

The WDS pxe can be quite temperamental though as its typical MS software (not very good). I found that restarting the WDS service fixes the pxe boot problems most of the time.

Check the application event log as restarting the service should be in there if they did that to resolve the problem.
 
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Capt Doufos said:
I have been told that opening the WDS boot image console on a server running an SCCM 2012 PXE boot enabled share will wipe out the SCCM 2012 images. I can't find anything to suggest that is the case.

Is it correct or is someone talking testicles?

Thanks
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Testicles. :D

I've done it when troubleshooting a PXE enabled DP with no ill effects. As above WDS/PXE can be a bit flaky and throw up random errors.
 
I have had a TFTP error in the past that required me to replace files.

I had to manually replace the images located in %windir%\Temp\PXEBootFiles to fix a PXE issue with SCCM.

This was not because anyone used WDS console however. I have no idea what caused the problem.
 
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