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May 31, 2018

SCCM PXE Boot TFTP Issue

My SCCM PXE Boot environment was working fine a few months ago, and but it broke and showing this when I boot up any machines:

Client Mac Addr: xxx GUID: xxx Client IP: xxx MASK: xxx DHCP IP: xxx Gateway IP: xxx TFTP… PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.

So the client can get an IP. that’s a good sign. Then I checked SMSPXE.log on the DP server..There are some error messages, and I followed those, and it got me into wrong direction. ( Removing and Re-installing PXE component didn’t help at all) Later I enabled detailed logging with WDS Service: https://2pintsoftware.com/enabling-wds-debug-logging/ And found out this error message: So it looks like the client having issues downloading the boot image via TFTP… then I checked if the WDS server is listening on TFTP 67/68 port…

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I couldn’t found 67/68 port… So what is wrong with WDS ? Finally…out of curiosity, I clicked this setting from “Windows Deployment Services”, and wola! it worked!