Yeah well I can tell you that this 11 year MVP is certainly not omnipotent... the title was never meant to convey one who knows everything, but rather one that was recognized as helping the community.
I seriously do want to see the quoted reference though as he puts forth just what we all need to keep handy... Ed Aldrich | Solutions Engineer 1E | Empowering Efficient IT Mobile: (401) 924-2293 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.1e.com<http://www.1e.com/> [Description: Description: cid:[email protected]] Ent Cli Mgmt (2003-2014) Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] ConfigMgr 2012 R2 OSD + PXE :: IP Helper vs. DHCP Options Now Ed... You are an MVP surely you have access to that? Actually it's my understanding that once you reach the 10 year mark Microsoft implants all the 50,000 + pages of docs into your brain so that you have instant recall abilities. Have you not had that done yet? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Aldrich Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 10:39 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] ConfigMgr 2012 R2 OSD + PXE :: IP Helper vs. DHCP Options Pls pass on the source link, Jason. Ed Aldrich | Solutions Engineer 1E | Empowering Efficient IT Mobile: (401) 924-2293 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.1e.com<http://www.1e.com/> [Description: Description: cid:[email protected]] Ent Cli Mgmt (2003-2014) Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Wallace Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 11:10 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] ConfigMgr 2012 R2 OSD + PXE :: IP Helper vs. DHCP Options John Thank you for correcting me on the support level of DHCP options. I suspect John that as an MVP you will have access to the documentation which states "Furthermore the use of DHCP Options to control PXE requests in Configuration Manager 2012 is not supported by Microsoft. Therefore the recommended and supported method of PXE booting client PCs that are on a different subnet than the DHCP or WDS/PXE Service Point servers is the use of IP Helpers." I happened to be reviewing the document yesterday and the words "not supported by Microsoft" struck me I suppose that you could argue that were you to have an environment running WDS on Server 2008 where you never had any UEFI involvement then yes, Microsoft would support you. I am quite sure that regardless of the above I am sure that you would still be supported since we all know that "not supported" actually means "not tested" Jason ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] ConfigMgr 2012 R2 OSD + PXE :: IP Helper vs. DHCP Options Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:18:24 +0000 Supported or not supported (by Microsoft) doesn't really matter here though because Microsoft products have nothing to do with most of the PXE process - it's almost entirely in the hands of the NIC to do the right thing. If something truly breaks down, it's either the NIC's fault or the network's. The DHCP server can play a small role here, but ultimately, that role is truly insignificant as it's still up to the NIC to determine what to do and then to do it. If the NIC does the wrong thing, there is no way to really troubleshoot it either and your only real recourse is to call the NIC vendor. There are NICs out there that some of us have encountered that simply refuse to do the right thing - these are pretty rare now days, but they do exist. With iphelpers, you simply have to watch the traffic if something weird is going on because it's not up to the NIC anymore. Experience has shown that iphelpers simply work better and as pointed out, with UEFI and architecture restrictions, DHCP cannot get the job done because it can only handle a single architecture. J From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 7:13 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] ConfigMgr 2012 R2 OSD + PXE :: IP Helper vs. DHCP Options DHCP options are supported. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Wallace Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:20 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mssms] ConfigMgr 2012 R2 OSD + PXE :: IP Helper vs. DHCP Options IP helpers is supported and recommended. DHCP is not and is not On 19 Sep 2014, at 00:14, Trevor Sullivan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Over the past years that I have worked with Configuration Manager, I have learned to use IP helpers instead of DHCP options, to point client systems to a Windows Deployment Services (WDS) / PXE service. I have personally experienced multiple instances at customer sites, just over the past year, where DHCP options have simply not worked as expected, and caused erroneous error messages during PXE boot. As soon as we implement IP helpers, everything "just works." I am interested in gathering feedback from people on this mailing list to confirm or deny my current understanding on this topic. Do you use DHCP options or IP helper to point clients to the WDS/PXE service? Have you had a negative experience using one or the other? Cheers, Trevor Sullivan Microsoft PowerShell MVP <image001.png><http://mms.mnscug.org/> ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. 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