Allows you to perform network-based operating system installations. 27 – In the Add Image Group box, type Windows Server 2016, and then click OK. Hi i am Syed we already deployed WDS Server 2012 in our. While starting networking: a matching network card driver was not found in this image. Enable the Intel 82579V NIC in Windows Server 2012. After installing the drivers the NIC was still not working. To get the Intel 82579V NIC working in Windows Server 2012, I used the this forum thread as reference for this blog post. Download the Intel drivers. Now you can use the Intel 82579V Gigabit NIC in Windows Server 2012. I've been messing around with WDS and WAIK on my VMware lab at. WdsClient: An error occurred while starting networking: a matching network card driver. Please have your Administrator add the network driver for this machine to the Windows PE image on the Windows Deployment Services server.

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Whilst I have experience of WDS/RIS, I am new to using MDT so I have a question regarding drivers. Our company has various different desktop hardware all over the place and I need to roll out Windows 7 to all machines.

So far I have created my deployment share and used a task sequence to create my base reference image, using a VM. So far I have not added any Out-of-Box drivers. I have then added the reference WIM image into 'Operating Systems'Now I have the task of rolling this out to the various types of hardware. My questions are:1.Is it simply a case of adding in the required drivers into the 'Out-of-box Drivers' folder?2.Do I need to update the deployment share after adding in the drivers? If so, do I need to refresh the boot image in WDS after doing so?3.Can I simply dump all the drivers for all the different types of hardware in this folder, and the LiteTouch deployment will figure out what's needed during deployment?Thanks in advance. Sorry if these are simple questions!

The answer to 1 and 3 is 'yes, but.' You may want to organize your drivers according to whether you need to use them in the boot (PE) images or the install images. Separating the drivers by model of computer can make it easier to replace the correct drivers when new versions are released. Updating the deployment share depends on where the drivers are going to be used.The answer to number 2 is, If you are adding drivers to the boot image, then yes, update the share and regenerate the boot images (using selection profiles for the boot image drivers is advised), then, yes you will have to replace the boot images in WDS to use these new boot images.For the OS deployment, MDT uses PnP calls to install the correct drivers. However,there is a task named 'Inject drivers' where you can specify which driver selection groups get installed.

If you don't have many different models, you can just leave it at 'Everything', but as time you get many models or different operating systems, the selection profiles are very handy for keeping it all straight.For the boot images and USB or DVD installations this keeps the size of media smaller since you are only using the drivers you need instead of all of them. On the 3 methods of driver management in MDT that should help you to decide the proper course for your situation.Hope this helps,(signature for disclosure purposes)DavidWindows Outreach Team - IT Pro.

I am attempting to deploy an image to a new custom-built machine using WDS, which I have used quite a bit in the past, but not quite in the scenario that I am in currently. Before, the image was created and redeployed on machines that were exactly the same.However, in this instance, I am taking an image that was created on one custom machine and adding to a different one. They are somewhat similar, but have different NICs, and a few other things. I know that is what is causing this problem. When it tries to boot into Windows PE, I get an error message that states:'WdsClient: An error occurred while starting networking: a matching network card driver was not found in this image. Please have your Administrator add the network driver for this machine to the Windows PE image on the Windows Deployment Services server.' I found an article here:That illustrates how to correct this problem, which I am capable of doing.

However, this article is for older OS versions.I am currently running WDS on Server 2008 R2 and am attempting to deploy W7-64 bit and have imported the 64-Bit Boot image from the Win Pro DVD.In WDS, there is a folder that says 'Drivers'. What is this used for? Or more specifically, can I just add all the drivers that are needed for this machine here, or is this for something else?Thanks in advance for the help, I am sure this will be an easy one.Mike. I am having a slight problem here.

I cannot figure out what NIC i have so that I can pick the only driver that i need to inject into the boot image (for some reason when I try to inject all 46, the process locksup and I have to reboot). According to the MS kb link above, it says I can find this by looking at the setupapi.app.log file. Says I need to look for something such as the following:In the Setupapi.app.log file that is displayed, locate the section that identifies the Plug and Play ID (PnPID) of the third-party network adapter. For example, 'DIFSELECTBESTCOMPATDRV - PCIVEN10B7&DEV9200&SUBSYS010D1028' is the section that identifies the PnPID of the network adapter in the followingHowever, in checking my log I do not see anything like that at all.

I have a few failures, but nothing related to network adapters as it may seem: Here is what I have:SetupInstallServicesFromInfSectionEx - MSClient.ndi.ServicesSection Start 2011/01/20 00:41:53.224cmd: X:Sourcessetup.exeSection End 2011/01/20 00:41:53.224Exit Status: FAILURE (0xe0000101)- AND-SetupInstallServicesFromInfSectionEx-MSNETBTSMB.PrimaryInstall.ServicesSection Start 2011/01/20 00:41:53.770cmd: X:Sourcessetup.exeSection End 2011/01/20 00:41:53.770Exit Status: FAILURE (0xe0000101)And that is it. I am not sure if these have anything to do with my issue, but I found nothing related to installing any driver, even though WDSClient is telling me that is is the NIC.Anyone have any insight?MikeOn a side note, WDS is definately not seeing the node, because when I run an ipconfig /all, the only node listed says 'Hybrid'Maybe it is the driver, but my problem then still remains that I cannot determine exactly what one driver I need.Mike.

Thanks SarkSyder. I was going crazy over this.1. First extract driver files to a folder2. Rightclick on default DRIVERS folder in WDS  Add Driver Package Select all driver packages from folder3.

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Browse to the folder you extracted to in step 14. Select the drivers you want or just all of them next, next  Select an existing driver Group (if you use that type of structure)5. Then go to BOOT IMAGES folder in WDS Right click on the image you want to add drivers to next, search for packages Next, Next and thats it.Thanks Again./Jesper.