PXE Boot and Task Sequence slowness

I have been assured that our subnet 10.10.156.x is all 100MB. Yet when I PXE up and run our CM2012 task sequence it takes over 1 hour
just to resolve the task sequence. Forget trying to actually do the OSD since that would take about 6 hours.
Before I go back to networking I wanted to explain what I did to this forum to make sure I did things right.
Our CM2012 server is also our one and only MP. It is also a DP for most of our small company. Our CM2012 server is on subnet 10.10.141.x. Yes, it has a static IP address.
Our 10.10.156.x subnet is in the same phsycal building as the 10.10.141.x subnet. .141 is for servers and .156 is for workstations.
We have a server that holds all of our DHCP scopes. On this DHCP server I found the 10.10.156.x scope. I added the following:
066 Boot Server Host Name: 10.10.141.54 (which is our CM2012 server)
067 Bootfile name: \smsboot\x64\wdsnbp.com
When I go to any workstations on the 10.10.156.x subnet I PXE boot up, it does see 10.10.141.54 and it launches the CM2012 OSD task wizard. But as I said it is slower than glue and un-useable at this time.
Did I setup this up right or do I need to do something else? Or is our networking team full of it?
mqh7

Ok, I did that. I saw no errors and in fact it all looked fine. It just took a long time. so I talked to our top network tech. He said the IP address means nothing. It is all about what the wall Ports are connected too in the
server/network room. So this does appear to be an internal networking problem we need to solve.
last question: If you have 100MB ports is that considered slow for a CM2012 OSD? our .WIM and all installed applications are close to 5GB of data. So is 100MB good or should it all be Gigibit?
mqh7

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<![LOG[Set media certificate in transport]LOG]!><time="16:32:05.325+240" date="05-06-2012" component="SMSPXE" context="" type="1" thread="3600" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:9220">
<![LOG[Set authenticator in transport]LOG]!><time="16:32:05.325+240" date="05-06-2012" component="SMSPXE" context="" type="1" thread="3600" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:7592">
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I've been hammering this for about 10 hours now (or to be honest, it's been hammering me) and it must be something very simple I'm missing. I have a feeling that I'm doing something I used to do in 2007 and whatever that is, it does not work in
2012.
If I connect using boot media, Task Sequences execute perfectly.
TIA,
Tom

Option 66: 10.10.0.11
Option 67: smsboot\x86\wdsnbp.com
Pending Request ID: 6
Contacting Server: 10.10.0.11
TFTP Download: smsboot\x64\abortpxe.com
PXE Boot aborted. Booting to next device
<![LOG[Client boot action reply: <ClientIDReply><Identification Unknown="0" ItemKey="16777218" ServerName="" ServerRemoteName=""><Machine><ClientID/><NetbiosName/></Machine></Identification><PXEBootAction
LastPXEAdvertisementID="" LastPXEAdvertisementTime="" OfferID="" OfferIDTime="" PkgID="" PackageVersion="" PackagePath="" BootImageID="" Mandatory=""/></ClientIDReply>
Those options are fine when using DHCP options. They must be configured right because ConfigMgr does send a reply to the client ("abortpxe"). It basically tells you that ConfigMgr knows the MAC address and/or SMBIOSGUID of the client, but cannot find
a deployment for it.
Just find ResourceID 16777218 in the console (you might have to add the ResourceID column) and double check if there's an deployment available (properties of the client with resourceID 16777218).
Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de
Your answer really helped me. I was searching for 2 days trying to find a computer in Config Manager. Your suggestion to "Just
find ResourceID 16777218 in the console (you might have to add the ResourceID column) and double check if there" was the trick to finding the computer in Config Manager. Thanks for all of your help
Gregory Campbell System Administrator

Is it possible to PXE boot to capture a ref image in SCCM 2012?

Hello,
I've created a master image via SCCM OSD. I would like to be able to PXE boot and capture that master image. I don't want to use a capture media like USB or CDROM.
I would like to automate the capture. My current master machine isn't joined to the domain. I created a test task sequence of Build and Capture. I disabled the "Build" section. I deployed the task sequence. When I PXE boot I'm able to choose my
Task Sequence but I get all kinds of errors.
Is this idea I have even possible?
Using SCCM 2012 on Server 2012. Client machines are Win 7 Ent. and Win 8 VMs.
Thank you,
Brian
Dr. Chuck

You don't even have to deploy it to unknown computers if you introduce the VM to ConfigMgr by importing it to console with it's MAC Address. Then you do a collection "Build Master Image" and add your VM there. You can deploy Software updates (if you want
them to go with the sequence) to that collection also. Deploy your TS to the collection and PXE boot your VM.

Client in OSD Task Sequence

Hello, I am deploying Windows 7 with a Task Sequence. And all of my applications and client get installed, the only thing I am having issues with is getting the client to check in. We have waited over 12 hours to see if it will finally check
in and still nothing happens. Here is the status of the workstation and the Task Sequence.
Workstation getting upgraded:
Is a fully functional windows 7 machine with client working. Name = LWS-123456
Push the the image with PXE, boots and installs everything without errors. Name = LWS-123456
Task Sequence:
Restart in Windows PE
Partition Disk
Apply Operating System
Apply Windows Settings
Apply Network Settings
Setup Windows and Configuration Manager
Disable IPv6
Standby Timeout None
Disk Timeout None
Display Timeout 180
Disable Hibernate
Disable Firewall
Disable UAC
Restart Computer
Create IT Folder
Install Office 2013
Install Browsers
Install Adobe
Clean up Desktop Links
Restart Computer
Any Ideas on where I am going wrong or what I am missing?
Thank you in advance.

jheinikel - I will have to keep that in mind, I think I have found the issue. I will have to wait till I get back into work tomorrow to test it out and keep you all posted.
Jason - you are on the right path.
Here is the link I had found and I had my Restarts in my TS not set to boot to OS they were booting to WinPE.
http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5618-damaged-client-after-setup-no-self-singed-cert/
This error is common because the "Restart Computer" task defaults to restarting into the WinPE boot image instead
of the full Windows OS. The "Restart Computer" task option "The boot image assigned to this task sequence" will cause it to
reboot into WinPE, while the option "The currently installed default operating system" will cause it to reboot into the full Windows OS being deployed by the Task Sequence. If the option is
not specifically switched from the default setting when the "Restart Computer" task is added to the Task Sequence, then the issue will occur.
I will keep you posted if it works tomorrow or not.
Thank you again.

Call litetouch.vbs from PXE booted WinPE

I'm not sure if anyone has tried this, but I thought I'd ask. What I'm trying to do is call litetouch.vbs which is sitting on an MDT distribution share from WinPE. I can call litetouch.vbs and pass in my paramaters to run a task sequence, but the task sequence
stops before it runs setup to deploy the OS.
I'm guessing this has to do with some of the info that's being gathered from the scripts and task sequence variables. Has anyone tried this and/or know what would need to be changed to be able to launch MDT from the share instead of from the content on the
MDT iso?
Thanks,
Rich

litetouch.vbs is included in the Litetouch WinPE image.
When you call it, it runs the ztigather.wsf script looking at the bootstrap.ini file. THe bootstrap.ini file will point to the correct DeployShare over the network if necessary, and the rest of the scripts will run correctly over the network.
What are you trying to accomplish?
Keith Garner - keithga.wordpress.com
Sorry I haven't gotten back to this sooner, but I was out of the office yesterday.
I'm trying to boot from a generic PE image via PXE and then automate different types of server builds. Without derailing this too much, what we're doing isn't conducive to using MDT with a database so we're using a different tool manage what gets built/rebuilt.
What I was trying to do is similar to a post OS install task sequence where you'd call litetouch.vbs sitting on a deployment share. The PE image would run a command to get it's install script that gets dynamically generated for it. I was trying to then call
litetouch.vbs with parameters sitting on the deployment share. The issue is that it didn't like that very much. It behaved differently every time I ran it. Sometimes it would format the disk and then just stop. Other times it would skip the INSTALL phase and
say it was complete, even though phase got set to INSTALL. I really couldn't figure out why this was happening.
We've since moved on to using DISM to install an OS with a dynamically generated unattend.xml and then calling an MDT post os install task sequence, but it would still be good to know if it's possible to do it the other way too.
Thanks,
Rich

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