SCCM 2007 I have a site server and many DP's all setup with PXE and OSD's, they all work great but I've only run the OSD advertisements and PXE boots locally, each DP. I have a situation where I have a barebone computer in my location that needs to be imaged for another location with its specific task sequence. If I add the MAC and Computer name to their collection with its advertisement will "my" PXE server here in my location know how to handle it? Yes the same core image is replicated to all locations. Hope this makes sense?

you can review the smspxe.log file on the nearest PXE service point that the client is booting from, it should tell you if the client is recognised or not My step by step SCCM Guides I'm on Twitter > ncbrady

yes, and I apologise for not having time to test this and find out for myself. Since I am using computer association and not the unknown collections I just wanted to avoid creating and then possibly deleting that association from 2 collections. I supposed it would just be safest to advertise it to both collections but putthe computer association in my local collection toinsure my pxe server see's it, after all the tS will get it where it needs to go. I was just trying to save time if anyone knows if PXE /OSD works the same way application deployment works across protected DP's, would be cool if it did. Again, hope this makes sense.

Protecting PXE service points does not work at all, because the client uses either broadcasts, IP helpers or DHCP options (66 and 67) to "find" its PXE service point. So totally different compared to "classic" software distribution.Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de

Yes of course, you are right. We use IPHelper but I just answered my own question, if it did work across DP's I would see all advertisements and I do not so it is locally dependant, I just have to advertise where I'm doing it, no problem and sorry to waste everyones time, thanks!