How to contrl PXE boot remotely

Miriyala, Vasu 21 Reputation points
2020-09-22T07:06:21.823+00:00

Hi Champs

Are there any ways/tools to manage PXE boot remotely, including pressing F12 and select and run a particular Task Sequence etc. Basically we wanted to do the PXE issue troubleshooting remotely without local IT staff help. Any suggestions are welcome

Thanks, Vasu

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  1. Jason Sandys 31,291 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2020-09-22T16:04:05.073+00:00

    vPro is a hardware-based solution that will give you complete control over the system exactly as if you were physically able to touch the device. This includes any boot time screens and interactions like pressing F12.

    DART and VNC are software-based solutions that will not give you this as they only load and are only accessible after an OS begins running on a system.

    vPro or a KVM that enables remote access are your best choices here.

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  1. Miriyala, Vasu 21 Reputation points
    2020-09-22T11:32:28.767+00:00

    Thanks Sebastian /Eswar,

    So we may need to chose between Intel VPro or DART Integrated SCCM Boot Images. Any idea if DART gives same live experience of remote screen with Imaging proceeding as is with reasonable delay... is this seen on SCCM console or any other utilities needed ?

    any feedback ?

    Thanks, Vasu

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  2. Eswar Koneti 2,201 Reputation points
    2020-09-26T06:46:20.763+00:00

    For DART integrated, there is still a requirement for support engineer to boot into pxe before engineer can remote the PC.
    You can see the PXE boot devices in MDT console. https://contosoniku.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/enable-winpe-remote-connection-via-dart-in-sccm/

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  3. Miriyala, Vasu 21 Reputation points
    2020-09-26T06:52:06.107+00:00

    Thanks Eswar for your continued pointers. With all the feedback receveived, we see vPro is the only option or KVM followed by it.
    I used KVMs in the past, but long back, will explore any modern stuff came in that aspect before rule that out

    Thanks, Vasu

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