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Access Denied when approving Pending Devices in Windows Deployment Services

Asked by ISGJackson08 in Windows 2003 Server, Deployment Software for Development, Active Directory

Tags: Windows Deployment Services, Windows Server 2003, Active Directory

I've recently setup Windows Deployment Services on our secondary domain controller Windows Server 2003 box. The server also performs DHCP and DNS server roles.

Everything is working great except for the approval of Pending Devices. I've set the PXE Response Settings in WDS to 'Respond to all (known and unknown) client computers' with the 'For unknown clients, notify administrator and respond after approval' box checked.

Problem is when I try to 'Name and Approve' or 'Approve' a device I get the following error...

Pending Device

Access is denied.

...the Directory Services tab is configured to add accounts to 'The following location:' which is set to our default OU for computer accounts. The server, network admin account (which I'm using to RDP the WDS server) and the domain admins group all have full control to that OU.

I can add new computers to that OU using the Active Directory Users and Computers snap in on the WDS server and also using the DSADD COMPUTER command line tool.

I've googled the hell out of this issue but can only find solutions regarding permissions on the OU (which I've pretty much ruled out given the above) or different languges between severs (both primary DC and the secondary DC/WDS server are set to UK English.

Very confused, would love to get this working though!

Cheers,

Dave
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