WDS And DHCP Setup Windows Server 2016
Step 1. Get Two New VM’s ready. Ensure they have static IP and joined to the domain
In My case My DHCP Server IP is 192.168.1.104 and WDS IP is 192.168.1.105
Step 2. On the first VM, Add DHCP Role from Server Manager
Step 3. From the Yellow Flag, select Complete DHCP Configuration, click Next, Commit and Close.
Step 4. Under Tools in Server Manager, Select DHCP
Step 5. Double Click on Server Name in DHCP window, expand IPv4, Right Click on it and Select New Scope
Step 6. Name Your Scope Anything You Want, choose a range of IP addresses that don’t conflict with your current routers DHCP.
In My case I Chose 192.168.1.51 to 192.168.1.60
Step 7. Click Next until you get to Router Default Gateway Screen
Step 8. Type in your routers IP address, in my case this was 192.168.1.254
Step 9. Click Next 3 Times and Finish.
Step 10. Run command prompt (CMD) as and admin and do the following commands
Open a command window (select Start , Run , cmd)
Type netsh
Type dhcp
Type server \servername or server ip_address
In My case this was Server \192.168.1.104
You then see a command prompt that says: dhcp server
Type add optiondef 60 PXEClient STRING 0 comment=option added for PXE support
Type set optionvalue 60 STRING PXEClient
To confirm that everything has been set correctly, type show optionvalue all
Exit out of command prompt
Step 11: Go back to DHCP window and right click on Server Options under IPv4 and select configure options
Step 12: Configure Option 66 ip address of WDS server so in my case option 66 is 192.168.1.105
Step 13: Configure Option 67 with 1 of the following. In my case I was using 64 bit.
32bit: bootx86pxeboot.com
64bit bootx64pxeboot.com for 64 bit clients.
Step 14: Go to 2nd Server (WDS) and open up server manager, add WDS role.
Step 15: Once Installed, go to tools in server manager and open WDS
Step 16: In WDS Window, expand Servers and right click on server name with Yellow exclaimation and select configure server
Step 17: Click Next 3 times and click yes, click respond to all client computers and click next
Step 18: Click Finish to add images, browse to the iso or DVD file of Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10, Click Ok, Next and finish.
Step 19: Go to your Hyper-V server and create a new VM without any installation media and start it.
Step 20: If WDS is Setup properly, network installation of windows should start.
Step 21: All Done.
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