r/MDT

Hello MDT friends!
We have roughly 20 different Dell desktops and laptops. What is the best approach to update BIOS at time of imaging?
HP makes a great guide below where the power shell script reaches out to HP servers, downloads bin file, checks for bitlocker and applies update with password.

https://hp.service-now.com/workforceexperience?id=kb\_article&sysparm\_article=KB0011905&sys\_id=953c08be47a1ed1064affae5536d43f8

I don’t want to keep a repository of bios models. Any help here?

I've moved my MDT deployment to a new server, and since then, I'm unable to get MDT to format the disks. It keeps giving the error "Disk not detected"

I've tried to inject the drivers into my WDS boot WIM image, no success. I've tried to regenerate my MDT images, no success either.

What am I missing?

I can't seem to get the Windows Deployment Services Server service started after adding the Windows Deployment Services role.

• Installed on a member server (no DHCP server services)
• Windows 2019 (1809)
• Logs show Event IDs:
  • 1811: BINLSVC: An error occurred while checking for the existence or creation of a Service Control Point for BINLSVC Provider.
  • 261: WDSPXE: An error occurred while trying to initialize provider WDSDCPXE loaded from C:\Windows\system32\wdsdcpxe.dll. If the provider is marked as critical, the Windows Deployment Services server will shut down.
  • 264: WDSPXE: An error occurred while trying to initialize provider WDSDCPXE. Because the provider is not marked as critical, the Windows Deployment Services server will continue to run.
  • 268: WDSPXE: All registered providers failed to initialize. Review the Event Log for specific error messages for each provider. Windows Deployment Services will shut down.
  • 513: WDSServer: An error occurred while trying to initialize provider WDSPXE from C:\Windows\system32\wdspxe.dll. Windows Deployment Services server will be shutdown. Error Information: 0xC107010C

I've gone through:

• Removing and re-adding the role
• Uninitialized and Reinitalized
• Installed all the Visual C++ Redistributables
• Confirmed there are no port conflicts with 67, 69, 4011, 5040, 5041 (compared from working MDT/WDS server)
• Checked the Do not listen on DHCP ports (even though DHCP Server is not running)

I seem to keep coming across the same information over and over without any changes. Hopefully someone here can provide some guidance.