During the recent CrowdStrike incident, I had a customer use the Microsoft-provided PXE server and image to remotely recover machines. Below is a mock-up (IP addresses made up) of what it looked like. We put the Microsoft PXE boot server in their data centre, and the machines were recovered over SD-WAN. I can also tell you that while this worked for a high percentage of their machines, we had a single digit percentage that would not PXE boot (they would start and then fail), which we put down to BIOS bugs.
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