SCCM PXE Service Point Reinstall

[linkz]

I am having problems getting the PXE Service Point reinstalled on my SCCM 2007 R3 install. I had to remove the PXE service point for a while as i was using syslinux, however now when I try to reinstall it will not attempt to run any MSI's or perform any configuration. Nothing appears in the event log and the smspxe.log and pxesetup.log are not created. I can try running the pxe.msi manually but I get the following error:

SMSPXE Provider starting
	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
================= PXE Provider loaded. =====================	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Init Policy Provider settings	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Machine is running Windows 2003 SP2 or older. (NTVersion=0X502, ServicePack=2)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Reloading PXE Provider Settings. cached=0	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Loaded PXE settings from reg key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SMS\Identification:
SMS Site Settings:
	Server: ZOIDBERG
	SiteCode: SWA
	Parent SiteCode: <empty>
	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Failed to read PXE settings. 
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
PXE Provider failed to read configuration parameters. 
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Initializing PXEPerfObject.	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Reloading PXE Provider Settings. cached=0	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Loaded PXE settings from reg key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SMS\Identification:
SMS Site Settings:
	Server: ZOIDBERG
	SiteCode: SWA
	Parent SiteCode: <empty>
	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Failed to read PXE settings. 
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Failed to retrieve database settings. 
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
PXE Provider failed to initialize database connection. 
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Failed to read PXE settings. 
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Failed to read PXE settings. 
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Reloading PXE Provider Settings. cached=0	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Loaded PXE settings from reg key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SMS\Identification:
SMS Site Settings:
	Server: ZOIDBERG
	SiteCode: SWA
	Parent SiteCode: <empty>
	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Failed to read PXE settings. 
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Failed to initialize PXE Provider. 
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)
Failed to initialize PXE provider. 
The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 80070002; Source: Windows)	smspxe	20/07/2011 13:09:54	6712 (0x1A38)

Any ideas how I can get this reinstalled without removing SCCM completely? Alternatively is it even possible to reinstall SCCM on the same server with the same site code? This is a new install of SCCM so there is no live data in it but I'd rather not do it this way and lose a week of configuring!

[Tripredacus]

What kind of logs are in Event Viewer when you try to do this?

[linkz]

What kind of logs are in Event Viewer when you try to do this?

I get the following few errors in Event Log:

An error occurred while trying to initialize provider SMSPXE loaded from C:\Program Files\SMS_CCM\smspxe.dll. If the provider is marked as critical the Windows Deployment Services server will be  shutdown. 

 Error Information: 0x2 

An error occurred while trying to initialize provider SMSPXE. Since the provider  is marked as critical, the Windows Deployment Services server will be shutdown. 

 Error Information: 0x2 

An error occurred while trying to initialize provider WDSPXE from C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdspxe.dll. Windows Deployment Services server will be shutdown.

 Error Information: 0x2 

An error occurred while trying to shutdown provider WDSPXE.

 Error Information: 0x6 

[cluberti]

Those errors all map to FILE_NOT_FOUND and ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE, meaning it's likely the previous removal did not go as planned and left some things behind. I would strongly suggest removal of the WDS role, reboot, re-add the WDS role, and then try again.

[linkz]

Those errors all map to FILE_NOT_FOUND and ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE, meaning it's likely the previous removal did not go as planned and left some things behind. I would strongly suggest removal of the WDS role, reboot, re-add the WDS role, and then try again.

Thanks for the reply,

I've tried doing this already. I followed the instructions from http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2011/01/05/troubleshooting-the-pxe-service-point-and-wds-in-configuration-manager-2007.aspx to remove WDS and the PXE service point along with the remoteinstall folder and any existing log files, these are the errors I get when following the instructions on the same page to install it again.

[cluberti]

Ah- that's bad. I would suggest removing the PXE service point and WDS again from the machine, enable MSI logging, and reboot. Next, install WDS and the PXE service point, and if that fails we should hopefully have some MSI logs in %tmp% that will be verbose to go along with the installation of the PXE service point to reference to see why it's not instaling it's provider into WDS properly.

[linkz]

Ah- that's bad. I would suggest removing the PXE service point and WDS again from the machine, enable MSI logging, and reboot. Next, install WDS and the PXE service point, and if that fails we should hopefully have some MSI logs in %tmp% that will be verbose to go along with the installation of the PXE service point to reference to see why it's not instaling it's provider into WDS properly.

I've enabled MSI logging, removed WDS & the PXE service point, rebooted, installed WDS (not configured), rebooted, installed the PXE service point and no log files were made.

I ran the pxe.msi installer manually and it created the log file in %temp%, it finished with:

MSI (c) (D0:F0) [10:05:32:732]: Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: SMS PXE Service Point. Product Version: 4.00.6487.2000. Product Language: 1033. Installation success or error status: 0.

This seems good however there are still no pxesetup.log file or smspxe.log file and the remoteinstall folder it created only contains the 'SMSIMAGES' folder, not the other items I would expect to be in there.