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Unable to Install Windows deployment services, it goes through fine but when it comes to the final stage, it appears with a Warning “windows deployment server not yet configured”

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Problem

Unable to Install Windows deployment services on windows 2003 Sp2, it goes through fine but when it comes to the final stage, it appears with a Warning

“windows deployment server not yet configured”

When we click on “next” to configure the WDS  it seems to be greyed out. If we try to save the path name, it appears with a warning

The File name or path is too long

The path (C:\test\remoteinstall) is greyed out and doesnt allow us to select different path

Note: Here folder test is a mounted volume

Cause

This issue was caused due to wrong configuration. If we attempt to configure the WDS images folder to a volume mount point on the system/boot partition C drive we would always face this issue as having remoteinstall folder on system volume is not recommended as per TechNet below

Reference article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978320.aspx

Resolution

· Since we were trying to configure WDS images folder on boot/system partition we were unable to get WDS working

· We removed mount point located on C drive and gave a drive letter E to the drive

· But still the old path was coded in the WDS settings

· Hence we reset WDS settings using command WDSUTIL /uninitialize-server

· After trying above command we retried to configure WDS server and it was configured without any issues

AUTHOR

Swapnil

Technical lead – Windows Core

Microsoft Corporation