Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Windows Deployment Services and setting PXE to "Respond to all client computers (known and unknown)." gives Access Denied

Quick and dirty hints to fix this:

  1. Open ADSIEdit.msc , connect to the Default Domain.
  2. Browse to the Computer Account of the WDS Server. It will have a Child Object. The user that runs the WDS Console needs Full Access permissions to this Child Object. 
  3. Right click and choose properties. 
  4. Select the Security/Permissions tab and add the user/group in. Set them to have Full Permissions.
  5. Log out of the WDS Server and log back in again. 
  6. AD replication may delay the result of this, but you should now no longer have Access Denied.

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