Windows Deployment Services (WDS) - Issues after upgrade OS (Solved)

 

This is just a quick guide of something that happened me last week.

After upgrading a server from Windows 2012 to Windows 2019, I got some issues with Windows Deployment Services (WDS).

Basically, the service was up and running but no MMC console, no clients could find the boot file, etc.

After some research, I found out 2 easy command-lines that solved the issue:

1. Open an elevated command-line
   
   
2. Run the following command:
   wdsutil /Verbose /Progress /Uninitialize-Server
   wdsutil /Verbose /Progress /Initialize-Server /REMINST:"c:\RemoteInstall"
   
   
3. Reboot the server

Just keep in mind that you should point the /REMINST to the folder where you have your WDS installed.