SOLVED PXE suddenly stopped working

[Marek T]

Hi guys,

looking for some help here. have a single DP that is not complying and I'm about to just blow it away if this does not work..

My pxe services stopped working suddenly even though there was no change to the server made that im aware of. i was looking through the logs and foud the following:


SMSPXE.log:

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InstallBootFilesForImage failed. 0x80004005 SMSPXE 09/11/2019 22:35:06 5564 (0x15BC)
Warning: Failed to copy the needed boot binaries from the boot image D:\RemoteInstall\SMSImages\AUS0018A\OEM_BOOT_IMAGE_x64.AUS0018A.wim.
The operation completed successfully. (Error: 00000000; Source: Windows) SMSPXE 09/11/2019 22:35:06 5564 (0x15BC)
Failed adding image D:\RemoteInstall\SMSImages\AUS0018A\OEM_BOOT_IMAGE_x64.AUS0018A.wim. Will Retry..
Unspecified error (Error: 80004005; Source: Windows) SMSPXE 09/11/2019 22:35:06 5564 (0x15BC)

SMSDPPROV.LOG

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[CA0][Thu 09/12/2019 20:13:54]:OpenService() failed.
[CA0][Thu 09/12/2019 20:13:54]XEServiceExists failed; 0x80070424
[CA0][Thu 09/12/2019 20:13:54]XE provider is already installed.
[CA0][Thu 09/12/2019 20:13:54]:WDSServer is NOT STARTED
[CA0][Thu 09/12/2019 20:13:54]:Failed to start the WDS service
[CA0][Thu 09/12/2019 20:13:54]:Installed PXE
[17BC][Thu 09/12/2019 20:31:45]:Content '70fbe8f8-4e8c-4421-83b8-d8d9e9c9a08a' for package 'AUS00139' has been added to content library successfully
[17BC][Thu 09/12/2019 20:31:45]:RegOpenKeyExW failed for System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WDSSERVER\Providers\WDSTFTP
[17BC][Thu 09/12/2019 20:31:45]:RegReadString failed; 0x80070002
[17BC][Thu 09/12/2019 20:31:45]:GetPXERootFolder failed; 0x80070002
[17BC][Thu 09/12/2019 20:31:45]:GetPXEImagesDirectory failed; 0x80070002

I came across https://forums.prajwaldesai.com/threads/issue-with-osd.234/ and followed the steps there but my issue still stays the same.

Any help would be great.

 

[Prajwal Desai]

[CA0][Thu 09/12/2019 20:13:54]:WDSServer is NOT STARTED
[CA0][Thu 09/12/2019 20:13:54]:Failed to start the WDS service

Have you fixed this ?. WDS service needs to be running before you image the machines.

 

[Marek T]

Yeah i Have. seems like some corruption went on in wds I had to manually uninstall it and reinstall it. after that the log finally seems to have cleared from that error

just now i got:

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[E40][Fri 09/13/2019 00:24:36]:CcmInstallPXE
[E40][Fri 09/13/2019 00:24:36]:OpenService() failed.
[E40][Fri 09/13/2019 00:24:36]XEServiceExists failed; 0x80070424
[E40][Fri 09/13/2019 00:24:36]XE provider is already installed.
[E40][Fri 09/13/2019 00:24:36]:WDSServer is STARTED
[E40][Fri 09/13/2019 00:24:36]:Installed PXE
[E40][Fri 09/13/2019 00:24:48]:Content 'EC557A17-5336-4897-8646-444C915C6794' for package 'AUS000E4' has been added to content library successfully
[E40][Fri 09/13/2019 00:24:56]:CSMSDPInstProv::EnableDPUsageStatsGathering entered
[E40][Fri 09/13/2019 00:24:57]:1998-01-01T00:00:00
[E40][Fri 09/13/2019 00:24:57]:A DP usage gathering task has been registered successfully

so i think its trying do do something but still no "remoteInstall" folder got created