Hi,

In lab environment, I setup an additional DP (Config Mgr Client was installed) on Server 2012 R2 and enabled the PXE and Multicast on this DP.

Now DP installation is fine, contents has been replicated .... but PXE is not working anymore.

WDS service on Primary site stopped and I cant start it (gives message this action cant be performed).

On DP, I checked that WDS service was running and for testing I powered off the Primary and tried to boot a client (assuming DP will facilitate this) but it didn't worked either.

Note: both primary and DP are on same network.

Any thoughts, what could have gone

What does the smspxe.log show?

Jeff

I would not be able to access the logs until Monday. Will check it out.

Is it supported scenario to have two WDS on same network?

Currently Primary and DP are on same network.

You can have multiple WDS on the same network. Just keep in mind that if you are not using DHCP to send computer to the right WDS and the client or in the same VLAN they will use broadcast and the first to answer will be use.

Hope this help you.

I have DHCP on Primary site server but the RDP is without DHCP.

Examine smspxe.log as Jeff already mentioned. 

Hi All,

I have checked the error messages and WDS shows lots of complaints regarding:

wdspxe.

wdsdcmgr.dll

"An error occurred while trying to initialize provider WDSDCMGR from C:\Windows\system32\wdsdcmgr.dll. Windows Deployment Services server will be shutdown."

Applied following but didn't worked:
http://zystemcenter.com/?p=

Even tried out one more suggestion but that didn't helped either.

http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/01/14/troubleshooting-wds-event-id-257-258-266-513/