WDS TFTP Server

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008

You use the Windows Deployment Services Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server to download the files that are needed to do a network boot using the Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE). PXE technology is a standard created by Intel that establishes a common and consistent set of pre-boot services within the boot firmware. The end goal is to enable a client to do a network boot and receive a network boot program (NBP) from a network boot server.

The TFTP server downloads boot files such as Pxeboot.com, Wdsnbp.com, Bootmgr.exe, and Default.bcd, as well as the boot image that contains Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE).

 

Aspects

The following is a list of all aspects that are part of this managed entity:

Name Description

TFTP Initialization

When the WDSServer service is started, the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server reads the configuration settings in the registry that apply to the TFTP server. Note that the TFTP server will not function correctly until it has initialized successfully.

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