Create Custom Vendor Classes for Use with your DHCP Policy
Think Custom Vendor Classes as Detection Method’s used to determine how devices are requesting a boot image from the DHCP server.
- Open the DHCP Console and expand the IPv4 Node
- Right-Click on ‘IPv4 Node’ and select ‘Define Vendor Classes’
- Click ‘Add’
- Create the UEFI 64-Bit Vendor class first by entering the following information
- Enter the following information for the respective fields:
- DisplayName: PXEClient (UEFI x64)
- Description: PXEClient:Arch:00007
- ASCII: PXEClient:Arch:00007
- Click ‘OK’
- Click ‘Add’
- DisplayName: PXEClient (UEFI x86)
- Description: PXEClient:Arch:00006
- ASCII: PXEClient:Arch:00006
- Click ‘OK’
- Click ‘Add’
- DisplayName: PXEClient (BIOS x86 & x64)
- Description: PXEClient:Arch:00000
- ASCII: PXEClient:Arch:00000
- Click ‘OK’
Creating Custom DHCP Policies
UEFI 64-Bit DHCP Policy
- Right-Click ‘Policies’ and click ‘New Policy’
- Give the policy a friendly name that coincides with the your vendor class naming scheme:
- PolicyName: PXEClient (UEFI x64)
- Description: Delivers the correct bootfile for (UEFI x64)
- Click ‘Next’
- On the ‘Configure Conditions for the policy’ page click ‘add’
- Select the ‘Value’ drop-down box and select the PXEClient (UEFI x64) vendor class that you created in previous steps
- Ensure that you check the box ‘Append wildcard(*)’
- Select ‘Add’
- Select ‘Ok’
- Click ‘Next’
- If you want the policy to affect only a specific range within your scope configure it, otherwise select no and click ‘next’
- On the Configure settings for the policy page ensure that ‘DHCP Standard Options’ is selected from the drop down box
- Configure the following scope options:
- 060: PXEClient
- 066: IP Address of the SCCM or WDS Service
- 067: smsboot\x64\wdsmgfw.efi
- Cick ‘Next’
- On the Summary page click ‘Finish’
BIOS 32-Bit & 64-Bit DHCP Policy
- Right-Click ‘Policies’ and click ‘New Policy’
- Give the policy a friendly name that coincides with the your vendor class naming scheme:
- PolicyName: PXEClient (BIOS x86 & x64)
- Description: Delivers the correct bootfile for BIOS machines
- Click ‘Next’
- On the ‘Configure Conditions for the policy’ page click ‘add’
- Select the ‘Value’ drop-down box and select the PXEClient (BIOS x86 & x64) vendor class that you created in previous steps
- Ensure that you check the box ‘Append wildcard(*)’
- Select ‘Add’
- Select ‘Ok’
- Click ‘Next’
- If you want the policy to affect only a specific range within your scope configure it, otherwise select no and click ‘next’
- On the Configure settings for the policy page ensure that ‘DHCP Standard Options’ is selected from the drop down box
- Configure the following scope options:
- 060: PXEClient
- 066: IP Address of the SCCM or WDS Service
- 067: smsboot\x64\wdsnbp.com
- Cick ‘Next’
- On the Summary page click ‘Finish’
UEFI 32-Bit DHCP Policy
- Right-Click ‘Policies’ and click ‘New Policy’
- Give the policy a friendly name that coincides with the your vendor class naming scheme:
- PolicyName: PXEClient (UEFI x86)
- Description: Delivers the correct bootfile for (UEFI x86) machines
- Click ‘Next’
- On the ‘Configure Conditions for the policy’ page click ‘add’
- Select the ‘Value’ drop-down box and select the PXEClient (UEFI x86) vendor class that you created in previous steps
- Ensure that you check the box ‘Append wildcard(*)’
- Select ‘Add’
- Select ‘Ok’
- Click ‘Next’
- If you want the policy to affect only a specific range within your scope configure it, otherwise select no and click ‘next’
- On the Configure settings for the policy page ensure that ‘DHCP Standard Options’ is selected from the drop down box
- Configure the following scope options:
- 060: PXEClient
- 066: IP Address of the SCCM or WDS Service
- 067: smsboot\x86\wdsmgfw.efi
- Cick ‘Next’
- On the Summary page click ‘Finish’
Remove Default PXE Options
- Ensure that you have removed the 067, 066, 060 options from the default scope options to ensure that the Policies take precedence otherwise you will end up with conflict