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Hi Guys... This post is all about Windows Deployment service WDS and its Errors and solutions. WDS is used to deploy Operating System Images and also is SCCM OSD Component. Many times we all have faced WDS issues and errors. Following are Some of Issues and their solutions Error 10048 Description: The Windows Deployment Services Server service terminated with service-specific error 10048 This issue occurs if the following conditions are true: ·          The DHCP server and the WDS server are installed on the same computer. ·          The  Do not listen on port 67  option is  NOT  enabled in the DHCP tab. Cause When the DHCP server and the WDS server are installed on the same computer, the WDS Service tries to use the port 67. However, the DHCP server already uses this port. Solution: Method 1 At the command prompt, type the following command, and th...

Hi guys, This time we will look on SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012 Migration. SCCM 2012 is out there in market and it provides lots of cool new features  for it infrastructure management like New CAS site, HTTP & HTTPs communications, Application catalog , enhanced mobile devices support, support for Linux & Mac Clients, Enhanced reporting, Monitoring, ADR-Automatic deployments rules…..So list is really quite large . So these are some differences which make you to think about SCCM 2012. If still you are running SCCM 2007 in your environment, you should think about SCCM 2012. How you can upgrade to SCCM 2012? There is no In-Place Upgrade option to upgrade from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012. You need to perform a Side-by-Side Migration for SCCM 2012. What Migration exactly does? When you migrate data from a source hierarchy, you access data from the site databases that you identify in the source infrastructure and then transfer that data to your current...

Hi Guys, Again i am back with very common information about DHCP,WDS & PXE and issues troubleshooting and their solutions. DHCP, WDS, and PXE are the main and needed components which plays very important role in SCCM OSD. They function and provide a very cool and automatize the OS installations (Network based). So why is the Need? DHCP : DHCP offers automatic ip address assigning functionality to machines at both booting state and online state. DHCP Scope options are one main key component. WDS : WDS offers the PXE functionality (Not SCCM) for network based OS installation (boots machine in to windows installation mode from network) So when we install the SCCM PXE service Point on WDS Server, It just overrides the settings of WDS PXE. Now Common PXE Boot Issues: ·         PXE-E53: No boot filename received   ·         PXE-T01: File not found ·    ...

Hi Guys, In this post  we will focus on about boot images & OSD Process In SCCM. So quick questions are  What are boot images in SCCM? Boot Images are the image used to boot the machine. The two types of largely used Boot images WinPE Boot Images:   These are used to boot the machine in to Windows Pre Execution Environment or we can say that Windows Installation Mode. OS Boot Images:   These are the boot images used to boot the machine to load the Operating System. Boot Images can contain Drivers like storage drivers, network drivers or any drivers you want to have in boot images, you can simply add or inject those drivers. You can customize the settings of Boot Images or can create your own new Boot Images by integrating MDT with SCCM. Now   How SCCM OSD actually works OSD is a very cool feature of SCCM. Once you do the configuration for OSD, you are ready to do Operating System Deployments. Apart from Boot Imag...

Hi guys, I have seen that while  working on OSD. lots of guys get error  0x80004005 or 80072ee7. I have also suffered in this issue This Error Stats about -- 1. Failure to get the policies 2. Failed to get information for MP: http://sccm I had configured everything properly & just satrted my machine to boot in to PXE. Machine booted properly, Got IP from DHCP Contacted to SCCM Server Booted in to Win PE Published the available Task Sequences But when i selected a task sequence & hit the Run. i got the Error. Failed to run task sequence Error0x80004005 or 80072ee7 Reason:Because OSD PXE boot is totally dependent on DHCP and machine receives the DNS server that is specified in the DHCP Scope. Solution:-  Go to the  DHCP  -> DHCP Scope Options -> Right-click -> Configure Options Just Check & Configure  DHCP Scope Options 003 Router IP or Gateway IP 006 DNS Servers (IP Address) 015 DNS Domain Name ...

Hi guys, This time we will talk about   SCCM   Operating system deployment (OSD).  So first thing  What is SCCM OSD ? Operating system deployment Provides a tool to create operating system images. You can then use these images to deploy them to computers that are managed by Configuration Manager and to unmanaged computers, by using PXE boot or bootable media such as a CD set, DVD, or USB flash drives. Components of  Operating system deployment (OSD) Boot Images Computer Association OS images OS Install Packages Task Sequence  Drivers  Drivers Packages on my fingers  If i start to count tasks which i can do, Boot images creation ( Using MDT Integration ) + Recreation Using WAIK Computer Association B/w One or More OS deployment from OS Packages (Only build Scenario) OS deployment from OS Packages & Capture Images( Build + Capture ) OS deployment from OS Images (Captu...

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