Issue with MDT/WDS

[Iain.Faulkner]

Morning all,

 

Hope someone can help.

 

We've done a lot of work over the summer with replacing switches and putting in vlans and as part of it our servers have had to change IP addresses.

 

Since the move, our MDT/WDS imaging solution no longer works. I've done the things I know need doing, I've regenerated the deployment/capture shares in MDT, imported the new boot images into WDS but it won't actually connect to the deployment server once you PXE boot the client PC. The error I'm getting is as below...

 

"A connection to the deployment share (\\192.168......\deploymentshare$) cannot be made.

 

Can not reach DeployRoot. Possible cause: Network Routing error or Network Configuration error"

 

I know that the IP address of the deployment server is wrong (it has moved IP address onto a 172. range) but I don't know how to update this at this point?

 

Can anyone help?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Iain

[Davit2005]

Try Adding the MDT/WDS ip as an IP helper address in addition on each vlan where you have your normal dhcp helper address.

 

i.e.

 

vlan 70

name "B5-Data"

ip helper-address 172.25.254.53 - DHCP

ip helper-address 172.25.240.12 - WDS/MDT

ip address 10.0.70.1 255.255.254.0

Edited August 11, 2015 by Davit2005

[IanT]

Check your DHCP Scope is configured on your DHCP Server, you have to add in the following DHCP option "066 Boot Server Host Name" - input the IP Address of your WDS Server.

 

Also check the WDS Services are started!

[Sephiroth]

Are your servers and clients on different VLANs and/or subnets? If so the officially recommended way is to use IP Helper addresses, though the DHCP options may work (certainly didn't for me). I'd been struggling with this for ages before someone pointed me in the direction of a particular TechNet article (which I can't now find, I'll add if I find it).