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Wierd PXE situation
Wierd PXE situation
- I could not get a computer to PXE for the life of me (was trying to image a former server). I ran a report on mac address and the server had no record of it. I could not get it to see any advertisements via unknown computer support or by importing the computer information and making a new record for the machine or any of the usual methods.
In frustration I finally optionally advertised a task sequence to all systems and it took off. After the OSD the computer was joined to the domain with a name from a system totally on the opposite side of the network(workstation). This machine had a completely different MAC address.
How the heck did it think that the old server box was the workstation across campus?
Any ideas on what happened to cause this?
Answers
- i would never advertise a task sequence to the All Systems collection to prevent this type of behaviour even though you say it was optional,
I would recommend using specific Deploy collections that are populated with machines that you intend to deploy an os to
eg:
Deploy
>>Deploy XP
>>Deploy Vista
>>Deploy Server 2008
>>Deploy 7
and so forth,
as regards your actual problems reading your logs may reveal what actually happened and why
cheers
niall
my SCCM step by step Guides > http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1064- Marked As Answer byEric Zhang - MSFTMSFT, ModeratorFriday, November 06, 2009 9:29 AM
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- i would never advertise a task sequence to the All Systems collection to prevent this type of behaviour even though you say it was optional,
I would recommend using specific Deploy collections that are populated with machines that you intend to deploy an os to
eg:
Deploy
>>Deploy XP
>>Deploy Vista
>>Deploy Server 2008
>>Deploy 7
and so forth,
as regards your actual problems reading your logs may reveal what actually happened and why
cheers
niall
my SCCM step by step Guides > http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1064- Marked As Answer byEric Zhang - MSFTMSFT, ModeratorFriday, November 06, 2009 9:29 AM
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