Hi,

I'm trying to install a remote DP with PXE (WDS).
Server 2012 R2 and SCCM 2012 R2 CU3, FW turned off.

The DP is working good as far as I can tell, the clients can download data when doing OSD and use PXE from other server.
But the PXE and WDS service inte not working. I know there is a billion posts about removing PXE and WDS and reinstall but it's not working and I cannot find any post with this specific error.

When WDS starts I get the following errors:
Error 264:
An error occurred while trying to initialize provider SMSPXE. Because the provider  is not marked as critical, the Windows Deployment Services server will continue to run. 
Error Information: 0x7E

Error 259:
An error occurred while trying to load the module from D:\SMS_DP$\sms\bin\smspxe.dll for provider SMSPXE. If  the provider is marked as critical, the Windows Deployment Services server will  be shut down. 
Error Information: 0x7E

(The 0x7E means "The specified module could not be found")
The file D:\SMS_DP$\sms\bin\smspxe.dll exists and seem to have correct permissions.

I tried the following with no luck, same errors every time:
- Removing PXE, reboot, delete the RemoteInstall folder, reinstall PXE and automatic WDS install from SCCM.
- Removing PXE, reboot, delete the RemoteInstall folder, install WDS manually without config, reinstall PXE.
- Run wdsutil /uninitialize-server, wdsutil /initialize-server. The RemoteInstall folder is recreated.
- Set WDS service to delayed start

The RemoteInstall folder contains only the following folders: Boot, Images, Mgmt, SMSImages, SMSTempBootFiles, Stores, Templates, Tmp, WdsClientUnattend
The SMSBoot and SMSTemp folders are missing.

The \SMS_DP$\sms\logs folder contains only pulldp_install.log, smsdpprov.log and smsdpusage.log

I was thinking of reinstalling the DP but I don't want to resync 40GB of data over the WAN.

So, any suggestions of:

1. How to solve the error without reinstalling the DP?

2. Reinstall the DP without having to resync all data?

Thanks,

• Edited by Anders_Claesson Thursday, May 07, 2015 8:02 AM text adjustments

I finally found the problem. I set up the exact same environment in a lab and found that some files was missing in the bin folder of the DP. I copied them there and restarted the WDS service. Now it works. I guess they should have been installed with the DP and not the PXE/WDS service.
baseutil.dll
ccmcore.dll
ccmgencert.dll
ccmperf.dll
CCMUtilLib.dll
certificate.dll
CommonUtils.dll
librdc.dll
rolesetup.exe
smscore.dll

• Marked as answer by Anders_Claesson 17 hours 51 minutes ago

I finally found the problem. I set up the exact same environment in a lab and found that some files was missing in the bin folder of the DP. I copied them there and restarted the WDS service. Now it works. I guess they should have been installed with the DP and not the PXE/WDS service.
baseutil.dll
ccmcore.dll
ccmgencert.dll
ccmperf.dll
CCMUtilLib.dll
certificate.dll
CommonUtils.dll
librdc.dll
rolesetup.exe
smscore.dll

• Marked as answer by Anders_Claesson Tuesday, May 12, 2015 1:56 PM

Had the same issue happen to me today and I normally end up rebuilding the DP. However today I decided to dig a little deeper and simply Registering smspxe.dll fixed the issue for me. Hope this helps or saves someone else some time.

regsvr32 /I [Drive]\SMS_DP$\sms\bin\smspxe.dll