We recently stood up a pair of VMs to test software packaging and deployment. We were intending to deploy a Windows 7 and Windows XP to each respective VM instance. The VMs boot into PXE fine and WinPE thereafter; however, the issue is when the actual OS Deployment task is trying to deploy the images. On both instances, the VMs appear to be downloading the images for a couple seconds but the status bar disappears immediately after. When the VMs boot into PXE, I can see they are connecting to our local site server BUT when I look at the ClientImageDeploy.log it appears that the VMs are trying to download the image from our Notification Server. The issue is that our NS box is only running the Task Service and should not have any OS packages installed on that server unless the images were imported via the ResourceImportTool. The local site server has all the images stored on a shared drive and physical boxes have had no issues downloading images from it. The IP subnets for the VMs are confirmed to point to the local site server. The workaround to be able to install Windows XP to one of the VMs was to copy the hashtagged folder containing the Windows XP image files and copied them to the same directory on the Notification Server. I could do the same for our Windows 7 image but space is limited on the NS box and we are on a strict deadline to deploy Windows 7.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to force the VMs to download the images from the local site server instead of the Notification Server? Is there something I may have overlooked? So far, downloading the image is the only task that fails. Reboot to PXE/Production tasks run fine and so does our DISKPART task. Any assistance is appreciated. We are running DS 7.1 SP2 as well.
