Good afternoon all, I am writing for help with WDS on Server 2012 R2 i've tried all of the countless options available on the forums and internet to try an help resolve the issue of "WDS server not starting in a timely fashion", I have had this working previously and without my Server being a DC, which since I have had a few serious issues that have now been resolved and Server 2012 has now been re-installed countless times to try and get this to work again. please help pass ideas much appreciated i am honestly out of any ideas on what the problem is the error codes that event log provides me keeps chasing me back to a server 2008 R2 error and the solution to that does not even work.

Kind regards

James

The error code i receive is 1216 and the do not listen to DHCP port is ticked as required to resolve the 1216 error

• Edited by Jamesb1993 18 hours 43 minutes ago

Hi,

Did you get the error message since the role is installed? You referred it worked previously, what has changed then?

Is there any other errors in event log except this one WDS server not starting in a timely fashion?

Please provide more information about the computer. Issues you have encountered previously, roles you installed on it.

the previous issue I had was a corruption within the system files on the Server, WDS was originally working fine before this with the role setup as a standalone device with just DHCP and WDS roles installed, with a completely new Server 2012 setup and these roles freshly installed i got the same error 1216, from this point i wiped server 2012 to start a fresh again but setting my server as a domain controller and re-installing these roles as a fresh again to still receive the same error. i have googled the error and tried all of the available solutions to the error 1216 but none of these have resolved my issue I am really confused and sorry if this is a very noobish question but i am a student learning how to setup a server using my own Intel server 

Hi,

Did you use the old RemoteInstall folder when re-install this role?

According to the follwoing thread, this could cause issues:

WDS Error  4294966080 (0xFFFFFB40)

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/879bd54b-2b03-452b-9a92-fa6cce0e3d70/wds-error-4294966080-0xfffffb40?forum=winservergen

Please try the method referred in it. Uninitialize the server, rename the RemoteInstall folder, start the configuration wizard and re-configure it.

Hope this helps.