WDS and two deployments simultaneously problem computername

Question

Hello, if there are 2 technicians doing a deployment Windows 10 simultaneously with Windows Deployment Services (WDS) and they use the same computername to join Domain. How can WDS detect that this name is already in use, when they are working at the same time and and they plan to use the same name?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello Rayman1980,

By best practice there should be different mechanisms to avoid duplicate hostnames. This includes:

• Do not run parallel deployment for same environment
• Use differential hostname topology: by site, by department, by type of user, by type of computer

Unfortunately, WDS will not provide a mechanism to avoid duplicate hostnames in this case.

Another option to clean up the hostnames in case of refurbishing and avoid GUID duplication too, would be to run the next script before proceeding to a deployment, ensuring that there will be no duplicates to start with:

Get-ADComputer -Filter {NetbootGUID -like "*"} -Properties Created | ? {$_.Created -le ((get-date).addDays(-5))} | Set-ADComputer -clear NetbootGUID

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Answer 2

Thanks @Simon Ren-MSFT .

I will check it.

Best regards

Answer 3

Thanks @Simon Ren-MSFT and @Limitless Technology .

These days I will be testing the scenario with the script that was provided to me, and I will put here the feedback of the experience obtained.

Best Regards,