wdsutil approve autoadddevices
Approves computers that are pending administrative approval. Windows commands reference
On Windows
Windows
Approves computers that are pending administrative approval. When the Auto-add policy is enabled, administrative approval is required before unknown computers (those that are not pre-staged) can install an image. You can enable this policy using the PXE Response tab of the server s properties page.
wdsutil [Options] /Approve-AutoaddDevices [/Server:<Server name>] /RequestId:{<Request ID>| ALL} [/MachineName:<Device name>] [/OU:<DN of OU>] [/User:<Domain\User | User@Domain>] [/JoinRights:{JoinOnly | Full}] [/JoinDomain:{Yes | No}] [/ReferralServer:<Server name>] [/BootProgram:<Relative path>] [/WdsClientUnattend:<Relative path>] [/BootImagepath:<Relative path>]
To approve the computer with a RequestId of 12, type
wdsutil /Approve-AutoaddDevices /RequestId:12IdentifyTo approve the computer with a RequestID of 20 and to deploy the image with the specified settings, type
wdsutil /Approve-AutoaddDevices /RequestId:20 /MachineName:computer1 /OU:OU=Test,CN=company,DC=Domain,DC=Com /User:Domain\User1
/JoinRights:Full /ReferralServer:MyWDSServer /BootProgram:boot\x86\pxeboot.n12 /WdsClientUnattend:WDSClientUnattend\Unattend.xml /BootImagepath:boot\x86\images\boot.wimIdentifyTo approve all pending computers, type
wdsutil /verbose /Approve-AutoaddDevices /RequestId:ALLIdentify/Server:<Servername>Specifies the name of the server. This can be the NetBIOS name or the FQDN. If no server name is specified, the local server is used./RequestId:{Request ID|ALL}Specifies the request ID assigned to the pending computer. Specify ALL to approve all pending computers./Machinename:<Devicename>Specifies the name of the device to be added. You can't use this option when approving all computers.[/OU:<DN of OU>]The distinguished name of the organizational unit where the computer account object should be created. For example: OU=MyOU,CN=Test, DC=Domain,DC=com. The default location is the default computer's container.[/User:<Domain\User|User@Domain>]Sets permissions on the computer account object to give the specified user the necessary rights to join the computer to the domain.[/JoinRights:{JoinOnly|Full}]Specifies the type of rights to be assigned to the user.
- JoinOnly - Requires the administrator to reset the computer account before the user can join the computer to the domain.
- Full - Gives full access to the user, which includes the right to join the computer to the domain.[/JoinDomain:{Yes|No}]Specifies whether the computer should be joined to the domain as this computer account during operating system installation. The default value is Yes.[/ReferralServer:<Servername>]Specifies the name of the server to contact to download the network boot program and boot image by using Trivial File Transfer Protocol (tftp).[/BootProgram:<Relativepath>]Specifies the relative path from the remoteInstall folder to the network boot program that this computer should receive. For example: boot\x86\pxeboot.com.[/WdsClientUnattend:<Relativepath>]Specifies the relative path from the remoteInstall folder to the unattend file that automates the Windows Deployment Services client.[/BootImagepath:<Relativepath>]Specifies the relative path from the remoteInstall folder to the boot image that this computer should receive.