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MDT server with two shares

I have an MDT server set up and originally only set it up with one share to choose from. We set up a second share and now we have two options in the list when at first there was only one. Unfortunately it still uses all of the information from the first share despite all of the work that we have done.

I made sure that the shares themselves are pointed to the correct share folders and even changed the rules in each one to be specific to their individual settings.

I even created a locationserver.xml file and deleted the deploy location from the bootstrap.ini file and pointed the shares to it but this has not fixed the situation. I even created a set of folders starting with Extrafiles (/Extrafiles/Deploy/Control) and put the locationserver.xml file in there and pointed both serves to this location in their respective deployment share folders.

I am hoping someone can help me figure out what I am doing wrong.

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It seems there is no update for a couple of days. May we know the current status of the problem?

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LimitlessTechnology-2700 answered CarlHolmgren-2831 commented

Hi there,

WDS requires a boot image and a boot image can only link to 1 deployment share. For every deployment share, a different boot folder/file will be created.

Simply remove the DeployRoot line from the bootstrap.ini file of each of your deployment shares, and then update your deployment shares to regenerate the boot images. Now, when a target computer is started from a boot image, a dialog will be displayed asking you to type the UNC path to the deployment share you want to use.

Dual Deployment Shares in MDT 2013 https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/81ae186c-437b-4721-a7f0-4de5e8447cc6/dual-deployment-shares-in-mdt-2013?forum=mdt


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Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my description.

I have created two deployment share in the Deployment Workbench. I am trying to create a separate boot image for each of these MDT shares in WDS. The problem is that the original one I created works just fine but the second one I have tried to create only errors out and I cannot figure out why.

Both of these images appear to be pointing to a folder titled Remoteinstall rather than the deployment share folders that I have created for each of the deployment shares. The new boot image I just created seems to be making a new LiteTouch file calling it LiteTouchPE_x64-(2).wim and trying to run with this but doesn't appear to point to the new MDT share I created.

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