Microsoft deployment service Authorization state: Not Authorized

Question

I've migrated the domain name on the server after being done I cannot configure WDS properties it say "Access is denied"

How to solve this problem

Answer 1

Hello PremprachaDK

Changing a domain name is always a non recommended infrastructure, and is well know for the frequent common issues after that, mostly in GPO, workstation association and authentication to server roles.

I am afraid that there not an straight answer to the issue, since the causes can be multiple, but I can recommend you to double check the steps for the domain name change here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc816631(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

My recommendation in this case would be to re-join the WDS to the new domain name, or even better remove the role (save your images first to a different location to avoid deletion of working files, and configure the role again to prevent orphaned data from previous domain name.

Hope this may help to navigate the issue,

Answer 2

Try to authorize the server using wdsutil.exe set-server with /authorize
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/wdsutil-set-server

If this doesn't work, you may need to uninitialize and re-initialize the server using wdsutil.exe