I was having an issue with very slow download of the WinPE WIM image, the screen shows ‘Windows is loading files …’ but it takes between 7 minutes and 1 hour to load the 150mb WIM file over a 100mb link. After spending a lot of time looking into this, and changing a lot of [...]

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Microsoft have released an update to their fantastic SuperFlow for SCCM OSD – available from http://www.microsoft.com/downlOAds/details.aspx?familyid=C6F88B60-5DD0-40D4-A7E4-8234B4066D27&displaylang=en. This SuperFlow provides information about operating system deployment using preboot execution environment (PXE) service points. The SuperFlow provides step-by-step information about how to configure the enterprise network to support Configuration Manager PXE service point deployments. It then describes the [...]

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We’ve had a constant frustration where clients would try to PXE boot more than once within an one hour period with the result being that the PXE boot fails. This problem occurs because of a PXE cache limitation (1 hour) set by default. You can also confirm this configuration by looking in the smspxe.log file: [...]

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