Recently OSD on my primary site server stopped working – but only when connecting via PXE. If I was using an existing boot disk, I could connect and start the imaging process. The PXE control log had the following entry over and over:
“PXE test request failed, status code is -2147467259, Error receiving replies from PXE server”
I assumed that the Windows Deployment Services Server (WDS) service had stopped and all I had to do was restart it and it would start responding to PXE requests. I was correct on one thing, the WDS service had stopped however when I tried to restart the service I got a very similar error in the event viewer as references in this forum post:
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
General: The Windows Deployment Services Server service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 2 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 600000 milliseconds: Restart the service.
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
General: Faulting application name: svchost.exe_WDSServer, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc3c1
Faulting module name: wimgapi.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5be09a
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000032a8e
Faulting process id: 0x1338
Faulting application start time: 0x01cbfecfb154f4f3
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\wimgapi.dll
Report Id: f089f975-6ac2-11e0-9ddc-005056970055
After rebooting the server the same error was logged and WDS would not start. Even after removing the boot image from my distribution points and then adding them back - WDS would still not start. I tracked them problem down to recent driver addition to the WinPE boot image. It looked like when ConfigMgr was recompiling the WIM file it corrupted the image. To resolve this issue I did the following:
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Remove the boot image from all distribution
points (monitoring the distmgr log file)
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Removed all drivers from the WinPE image
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Added all our drivers back to the image and
allowed it to recompile
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Added the boot image back to the distribution points
(monitoring the distmgr log file)
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When everything had replicated successfully I
was able to restart the WDS service
