[wds] WDS MDT Srv 2019 Issue

[samlcfc16]

Hi Guys,

 

I am in the process of migrating away from our old WDS/MDT Server for a clean start and have spun up a brand new vm running srv 2019.

 

This has both got WDS and MDT installed. MDT Works a treat, and have also created a capture image for capturing the sys prepped Images I've made which also works great too.

 

On booting to PXE Boot to install an image that's been captured, I am finding that all PC's seem to hang and some seem hit and miss and in general this seems very slow too. I've found I can maybe get 2/3 PCs connected then the others will get fobbed off and not connect. On our current Server running WDS/MDT we could have a whole IT Suite going in one go and had no issues.

 

 

The PXE Screen on the PC's gets the PCs get stuck / hangs for a while on:

 

'Downloaded WDSNBP from (IP Address)

 

WDSNBP Started using DHCP Referral

Contacting Server: (IP Address) Gateway......

Architecture: x64

Contacting Server: (IP Address)

TFTP Download: boot\x86\wdsnbp.com

 

Downloaded WDSNBP From (IP Address)

Architecture: x64

Contacting server: (IP Address)

TFTP Download: boot\x64\pxeboot.n12

 

Our Old WDS MDT Server that was also running Server 2019 is set up in exactly the same way and from the PC's PXE booting to them, this finds the server in the matter of seconds, then you can choose from the Image bank, capture an image, or boot to MDT. In general this seems really fast! The same settings and setup that I have replicated across. I've also got the the driver packages on there too.

 

I've also gone through adding both new 64 and 32bit images for boot images as well in case that was the issue. The version of windows 10 we are using is Windows 10 Enterprise N LTSC 2019 (1809.)

 

Any ideas what may be causing this behaviour?

 

Cheers,

Sam