Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "TFTP Client" One reboot later (she used the time to grab coffee), her laptop could now talk TFTP. Here’s where many fail. The Windows TFTP client can only download from or upload to a server. It cannot host files by itself.
The problem? The cameras were on isolated management VLANs. They had no internet access, no HTTPS servers, and most didn’t even support SMB (Windows file sharing). They only spoke one language for bootstrapping: . tftp on windows
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "TFTP Client" It was disabled. She enabled it with: no HTTPS servers