MDT Deployment using PXE Boot

Question

Hello all,

I am currently trying to set up a windows server 2012 r2 with MDT 2013 update 2 and ADK on it. My boss has given me the task to get this up and running before the spring semester starts in January because he wants to stop using Semantic Ghost. I have no idea what I am doing wrong or if I have missed a step. I have no one helping me work on this project and my boss knows nothing about the MDT system. Now with all that in mind here is my problem:

I have the server 2012 r2 set up on VMware vSphere and the MDT 2013 update 2 and ADK are on this virtual machine and all ready to go. I am needing to push a Windows 10 Pro image with multiple programs (Tableau 9.2, Python, Visual Studios, etc.) out to 40 desktop machines. I know how to create the image and get all of that stuff working, but when I go to push the image to a machine in the lab using PXE Boot nothing happens. PXE Boot comes back with "No filename found" or something like that. We have a server rack in our lab and the old ghost server is off and has been off for a while now. I have made sure that the virtual machine and the desktop machines are on the same subnet. I am able to ping the virtual machine from the desktops, but I can only ping the desktops from the virtual machine if the firewall is down on the desktops. The DHCP is not set up on the virtual machine server because it is set up on our server rack.  

I need help figuring out how to deploy the image from the virtual machine to the desktops using the PXE Boot.

Answer 1

Hi,

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