WDS Stopped working

[MrFrostmaul]

Hi all,

 

Yesterday WDS was working perfect without any issues, however today it don't want to play ball.

 

The computers are getting to Boot from network and can get DHCP address and downloads the WDSNBP from WDS Server, but then it does:

 

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WDSNP started using DHCP Referral.

Contacting Server: IP ADDRESS (Gateway: 0.0.0.0)

No response from Windows Deployment Services Server

Launching pxeboot.com...

 

Press F12 for network service boot

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When pressing F12 it just exits the Boot agent and boots Windows as normal..

 

Anyone come across this before and know how to resolve?

[win]

check the WDS server and open "services"

 

most likely the WDS service has not started

 

if it has, restart the service

[MrFrostmaul]

Was started already, restarted before and still same issue.

[Oaktech]

Apologies if this insults your intelligence, but I've not had great results turning services on/off for WDS. I've found that an overnight restart of the server has fixed it, where fiddling with services has had no effect.

[MrFrostmaul]

Apologies if this insults your intelligence, but I've not had great results turning services on/off for WDS. I've found that an overnight restart of the server has fixed it, where fiddling with services has had no effect.

 

Already tried restarting the server. Managed to get all working now, the firewalls somehow changed when the server rebooted for windows updates.