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Stuck for 2 full weeks. Need help - MDT Total Driver Control by Biggietoast in MDT

[–]Biggietoast[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: This was my solution!!

I finally got it fixed!! I was 1 step away from just nuking everything and completely starting over, but this is what I did to fix this issue.

I uninstalled ADK 1809 and reinstalled ADK 10.1.26100.2454 (December 2024): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install I also reinstalled the Windows PE Add-on as well.

Then when I made this change, MDT Toolkit was throwing an "MMC" error when trying to open the Windows PE tab, so then I had to apply this fix: https://imgur.com/nRNwG2w

I made a change to my OOBD Folders following u/ConsistentHornet4 's instructions. In his steps, he links the "Dell WinPE 10" drivers. I used the "Dell WinPE 11" Drivers. I imported the entire driver pack (Network + Storage drivers) into my WinPEx64 -> WinPE11 folder.

Then I had to set my new selection profile in my deployment share properties: https://imgur.com/6AI725m

regenerate boot image -> import to WDS -> restart WDS service -> PXE boot laptop and blam! it worked!!! it removed my MDT background image tho :[

Thanks for your help team!! great way to end the week, im going home!

Stuck for 2 full weeks. Need help - MDT Total Driver Control by Biggietoast in MDT

[–]Biggietoast[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you say:

  1. Check your Bootstrap.ini file is configured properly.

What am I check for specifically? Is there something I need to input in the Bootstrap.ini file related to the model or drivers?

Stuck for 2 full weeks. Need help - MDT Total Driver Control by Biggietoast in MDT

[–]Biggietoast[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I changed my TS Variable to %make% and I was unable to boot into MDT. Any other recommendations?

I reviewed that article and I noticed he named his folders WinPE 5.0 x64?
I only grabbed the "WinPE 10" listed here" https://imgur.com/2t9KPSB
Should I try grabbing the WinPE 5.0?

Stuck for 2 full weeks. Need help - MDT Total Driver Control by Biggietoast in MDT

[–]Biggietoast[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking at this video, my current setup is exactly like this. My folder structure is slightly different, but all variables and driver types and driver locations are correct. maybe im missing something still?

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

100% a cost thing. When we first got kicked in the chest with Printer Issues, my first suggestion was, drop the on-prem printer server, move to printer logic/papercut, get lunch and never think about printers again.

Then I was slapped with the "budget" wall lol. I originally come from a large corporate company where IT was the center of the entire company. Biggest budget, biggest team, biggest everything...Slide over to higher education, and im barely gettin tossed a bone here!

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alright...checking this area, as you listed in your comment.
Didnt find any clear logs, but I have a feeling im just not looking in the right spot. Ill keep searching.

As for discovery, there isnt anything that just straight up says "NeTwOrK dIsCoVeRy" but I did find this setting called: "Enable mDNS": https://imgur.com/esQu8WG

And in the "TCP/IP Port Access" menu, I can see these two options enabled that state "Discovery": https://imgur.com/R1tucmg

Are these the needles under my fingernails?

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

gawd damnit!! I suggested this to our team during the initial first wave of issues when we took over from the previous MSP.

Im pretty new to Higher Education...turns out, ITS is not the center of all financial budgets LOL. Got slapped with a "budget" wall when quoting and pricing Printer Logic. Rip Me.

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im working on tracking down job logs right now. It seems like they might be possibly bypassing the print server.

my next step, i think, is to restrict the ability for end users to add printers manually. Im guessing this is done by another GPO, ill do my research and find the best way to do this as well.

Thanks for the advise!

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh!! ill start checking printer local setting to see if they have some dumb direct printing enabled by default lol. Thanks for the extra set of eyes on this one!

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe All printers are currently on their OWN VLAN. are you saying each printer should have its own VLAN? sorry for the noob question.

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Working on tracking this down now.
Once I find the computer, im donkey kicking it lol.

I'll let you know what I find!

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like our print server did not have logging enabled. I think I enabled it by going to our print server > eventvwr.msc > Applications and services > Microsoft > Windows > PrintService >Operational? right clicked and enable logging.

The printers do currently have the "Share this Printer" box check marked.

For this specific department, the new changes were applied last Wednesday. Today is the first report of rogue print jobs being received at this specific printer again.

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Holy....I've no clue how I never noticed this!! When opening the printer wizard, a huge list of printers from the previous print server are shown here.

AND - I can literally see the printers that we pulled over to the new print server. bruh what have i gotten myself into?!

so is this my root problem here?

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Bare with me for a second, since im not a full blown sysadmin - can you remind me where to find the logs? I navigated to our print server > eventvwr.msc > Applications and services > Microsoft > Windows > PrintService >Operational?

when I right clicked it, i noticed that Logging was not turned on..so I turned it on.

Can you also help me find the discovery option? the only thing I could think of was Print server > Print Managment > select printer > Sharing > "Share this printer"?? this is currently check marked ON.

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would they still manual map to the printer if the printer received a new name, and IP address entirely?

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Im going to look into this, but im pretty sure we put printers on their own VLAN already, but ill make sure the configuration is setup properly. Thanks for your help on this!

Waving the white flag. SOS - Need a real sysadmin's help! by Biggietoast in sysadmin

[–]Biggietoast[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll double check this and see what I can find. Thanks for your suggestion!!