[SOLVED] OS deployment: No valid IP address error

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clafon
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Registration: Nov 06, 2024 - 10:56

December 16, 2025 - 10:08 AM

WAPT Version: 2.6.1.17567
Server OS: Debian 12
Administration Machine OS: Windows Server 2019
Target Machine OS: Windows 11

Hello,

We just received new laptops (Lenovo ThinkPad P16v Gen3 model) and are trying to deploy a Windows 11 OS via WAPT.
We have successfully retrieved the network card drivers and put them in WinPE.
We can boot from PXE but get the following error:
VerifyCert: X:\SSL\server\server.crt
No Valid IP address found.

When we search the forum or the internet, this error message often comes from missing drivers, but that's not the case because they have been successfully retrieved. Do you have any ideas?

Thank you.
Last edited by clafon on Dec 17, 2025 - 10:44, edited 1 time.
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sfonteneau
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December 16, 2025 - 11:03

Once WinPE is running, you can check with ipconfig in a command prompt.

If no interface appears, it's a driver issue.
clafon
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Registration: Nov 06, 2024 - 10:56

December 16, 2025 - 11:33

Thanks for your feedback Simon,

we just realized that we can no longer deploy OS at all, even on "old" machines that were working...
On the DHCP server we can see the machines and an IP address is correctly assigned to them.
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sfonteneau
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December 16, 2025 - 11:52

We updated the tis-wads-requirement-minimal-x64 package to version 10.1.28000.1.


Perhaps the new version of WinPE doesn't work as well with older PCs:
https://learn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windo ... ember-2025
clafon
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Registration: Nov 06, 2024 - 10:56

December 16, 2025 - 1:04 PM

I tried with version 10.1.26100.2454-36 of the wads-requirement-minimal-x64 package, same problem...
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sfonteneau
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December 16, 2025 - 1:35 PM

sfonteneau wrote: Dec 16, 2025 - 11:03 Once winpe is started, in a cmd you can check with ipconfig.

You did not answer me on this subject.
clafon
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December 16, 2025 - 1:58 PM

On all machines, old (which were working until now) or new, the ipconfig command returns:
Windows IP Configuration, nothing more
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sfonteneau
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December 16, 2025 - 2:09 PM

clafon wrote: Dec 16, 2025 - 1:58 PM On all machines, old (that were working until now) or new, the ipconfig command returns:

Windows IP Configuration

and that's all
On a working machine, WinPE will always return an IP address (it's impossible for it to return nothing on a working machine). I just tried it.
clafon
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Registration: Nov 06, 2024 - 10:56

December 16, 2025 - 2:11 PM

I upgraded the Wapt server to version 2.6.1.17576 (just in case).
The workstations are correctly assigned IP addresses (reservations are present in the DHCP server)... but at the beginning of the PXE boot process... I get the error "No Valid IP Address found."

I'm completely baffled.
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sfonteneau
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December 16, 2025 - 2:13 PM

If you're starting an IPXE server, it's quite possible that the IPXE server itself will get an IP address, but WinPE won't.

Are you starting with an IPXE server?
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