[wds] My WDS Stopped Working Today After 30 Windows Updates

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Hi all. I just wanted to alert other WDS users to a problem I came across today.

 

I logged on to our WDS and found that there were 8 Windows updates waiting to be applied [all critical]I allowed them all to deploy.

 

Upon restart I found that the 'Windows Deployment Services Server' service would not start. I am still looking at what updates were applied and what might have caused the problem.

 

I restored C:\ and Services State from backup and restarted the server. Happily normal service has now been restored.

 

As a word to the wise: Check your WDS servers to make sure that they are still viable.

 

HTH.

[Gatt]

My WDS is all fine here.. and not seen anything in the MS Revision Bulletin email this morning....

Could've just been a coincidence...