MDT Invalid credentials: The network was not found

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This error above was prompted because of permission issues associated with my Deployment Share and I also had to append the UserDomain to the bootstrap.ini. Here is the error below that was prompted.

Resolution

To fix this, locate the Deployment Share and right-click on it
– Select Properties as shown below.

This will open the Deployment Share Properties Window as shown below.
– Click on the Security tab and
– Click on the Advanced button as shown below in order to set inheritance and take ownership of the share.

This will open the Advanced Security for of the DeploymentShare

– Furthermore, Take ownership of the file and set the needed permission and
– Finally, click on “Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object.

Next, we will have to edit the bootstrap.ini file in order to append the UserDomain to the bootstrap.ini
- To do open the Deployment Share file system.
- Click on the control folder and edit the bootstrap.ini file and
- Add "UserDomain=your domain here and save your file.

When you are done with the steps above, you will have to regenerate the Lite touch boot file again. To do this, follow the steps below. See this guide for more information about “ADK, MDT, and WDS: How to configure and deploy Windows using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and Windows Deployment Services for Windows 10“.

Right-click on the deployment share over the MDT and click on the “Update Deployment” share

After updating the Deployment Share folder, a LiteTouch WIM file will be created. These files will be located under the boot folder in the Deployment Share you created.

To Add the Lite-Touch Images to WDS, follow the steps below
– On the WDS-SERVER, open Windows Deployment Services (WDS),
– Right-click on the Boot Images and then
– Click on Add Boot Image,

This still will go through the Lite Touch WinPE generation and when complete, you can replace the existing Lite Touch PE file on WDS. When next the client establishes a connection to the WDS server (PXE Server), the error will no longer be there and the installation will complete successfully as shown below.