I'm working in a test lab environment and WDS is working fine. Its cool, automated end to end and don't we love it but:
The WDS server is set: Respond to all clients/ For unknown clients... respond after approval
So if we boot a new client, "name and approve" a computer object with the right GUID etc gets created in the AD and the machine builds fine. We might then rebuild the machine a number of times against the same AD object (computer account).
BUT if we then just delete the computer account in AD (AD Users and computers) the machine will no longer continue to pxeboot. It just hands in the PXE boot waiting for a DHCP/ PXE response from WDS which it appears to no longer get. Its like the AD object is deleted (and I've checked that its in the deleted objects container with the GUID stripped off) but its in some other WDS data base that has not been cleaned up.
SO?
a) How am I meant to remove the existance of a computer object known to WDS so the computer can be rebooted and reprovisioed with a new AD account (and actually PXE boot against the same WDS server.)
b) How can I clean this situation up?
Any clues?