Peer-to-peer PXE

When you turn on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) PXE, this extends Configuration Manager's (ConfigMgr's) native PXE functionality. This will allow selected client machines to act like temporary PXE servers without requiring additional infrastructure. To do that, OneSite Anywhere places the necessary pxe boot files obtained from the Microsoft ADK on targeted machines so they can respond to PXE boot requests.

Enable Peer-to-Peer PXE

Click Settings > Peer-to-Peer PXE.

Peer-to-Peer PXE Settings

• Enable Peer-to-Peer PXE

  Enabling Peer-to-Peer PXE will turn on PXE and TFTP server capabilities on the OneSite clients in the target collections below. A small set of tools from the ADK/ADK PE toolkit will automatically be dispatched to these computers to enable these functions.

• Support UEFI Devices

  Enable if you plan to use UEFI devices in your environment.

• Unknown Computer Support

  Specifies whether you wish to enable support for PXE booting unknown computers using Peer-to-Peer PXE.

Target Groups

You can either toggle ON Use All Clients or select Browse to choose specific Target Groups.

WAIK/ADK Toolkit Settings

The PXE Toolkit now only supports the ADK 8.1 and Higher option. WAIK and ADK 8.0 should not be selected and are unsupported.

• PXE Toolkit

  Uses specific Microsoft utilities for PXE boot which would normally be present on a ConfigMgr server.

  If the Adaptiva Server is installed on a server other than the ConfigMgr server, you can use a UNC path to reference the installation location on that server.

  • Windows 10: Windows PE Add-on for ADK (ADK 8.1 and Higher).

• WAIK/ADK location

  Enter the path to the toolkit installation folder.

  Example:

  C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit

• BCDEdit.exe location

  Enter the path to the where the BCDEdit.exe utility is located.

The bcdedit.exe utility must be specified and can be downloaded and extracted from the following link:

http://adaptiva.cloud/builds/private/bcdedit.zip

• Use Adaptiva Server Local System Account

  If the path specified is on a remote server and the Adaptiva server's computer account does not have access to the location, toggle OFF Use Adaptiva Server Local System Account and enter the credentials to be used.

(Optional) Mac Exclusion

Add the list of MAC addresses for computers which will be excluded from PXE booting using Peer-to-Peer PXE.

Eg. 00:15:5D:02:05:16.

(Optional) PXE Approval Workflow

This workflow will execute on the Adaptiva server machine, and will allow you to:

• Programmatically approve or deny any incoming PXE request that has been received by any P2P PXE Server on you network.

• Decide which boot image is sent to the PXE Client machine that is booting up.

• Bypass F12 on required deployments.

  Add any task sequence variables and values that OneSiteDownloader may read.

(Optional) Task Sequence Variable Workflow

This workflow will execute on the PXE device to set Task Sequence variables.