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WDS MDT Debugging seems a nightmare - Is it supposed to be that hard or do I lack experience?
That's a rather broad question :-) We do provide a lot of docs to help at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/index, including step-by-step guidance. The forums here, as well as mailing lists hosted by MyITForum.com on MDT and OSD, can help too.
Yes, I read all of that, but the most interesting bit is missing - DEBUGGING. And debugging WDS is really hard, as the deploy just fails and one has no idea why, when for example the DeploymentShare did not have the right permissions or there the deployent share path was using the netbios name instead of the FQAN. No component told me that, I just had to find out by myself. This really kills productivity, as you can imagine that this search is not trivial, especially as a newbe.
I especially read this bit:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/deploy-windows-mdt/deploy-windows-10-with-the-microsoft-deployment-toolkit
as this is what we are using, but we have our own DNS, DHCP Server, which is not a Microsoft Server.
Where is the - HERE IS WHAT YOU DO WHEN THINGS GO WRONG - part that is orded by which phase of the deployment it concerns?