Lol @ ”care and feeding” John Bain NHQ – Solutions and Information Management | AC - Direction générale des solutions et de la gestion de l’information Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada 365 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa ON K1A 1L1 | 365, avenue Laurier Ouest Ottawa ON K1A 1L1 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Telephone | Téléphone 613-437-6829 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-952-7171 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bembry, Joseph Sent: January 28, 2016 7:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MDT-OSD] Using MDT to deploy Windows to Mac hardware
+1 on the method. We gave up on the macs minis on the last refresh in favor of the HP minis. Same footprint almost and no extra hoops to jump through for their care and feeding. We don’t use them anywhere but in lab environments so TPM but no WOL is heartbreaking. As for the MDT media, nothing special. I didn’t inject any drivers other than maybe the nic card. Then I had to use this: https://github.com/timsutton/brigadier to install the Apple windows drivers. Not sure if that is still the case, but we had problems with just injecting drivers. It just wouldn’t find certain ones. From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of "Miller, Todd" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 1:49 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] Using MDT to deploy Windows to Mac hardware We have gobs of Mac Minis that we wipe and load Windows exclusively on using MDT/OSD. Older ones were no trouble at all, while new ones have some business with partially implemented non-standard implementation of UEFI and they come with weird partitioning that we had to detect and blow away. Some we are able to boot from USB based WinPE – others we have had to boot from CD. Anyway we have around 300 Mac Minis in production running windows exclusively. Love the form factor and the internal powersupply. Lack of support for wake on LAN (when truly off) and aforementioned lack of TPM are things that prevent these from being slam dunks. Really can’t beat the form factor, cost, or reliability though – there is nothing like them. We use them primarily for status boards, wayfinding, etc—you know computer hidden behind 48-60” LCD screen and other areas where there is a significant space constraint. I suppose if you have been investigating this for dual boot you have already read about two canoes software, which has a Casper supported way to deploy a Windows bootcamp image to Casper managed Macs. http://twocanoes.com/ Have not used that myself, but I have been to see demos at conferences and it seems like it works pretty well for deploying to dual boot. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bain.John Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 12:13 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] Using MDT to deploy Windows to Mac hardware For whats its worth and if your using bitlocker, most Macs lack TPM chips so this makes them slightly less desirable for deploying Windows to them in a corporate environment. John John Bain NHQ – Solutions and Information Management | AC - Direction générale des solutions et de la gestion de l’information Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada 365 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa ON K1A 1L1 | 365, avenue Laurier Ouest Ottawa ON K1A 1L1 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Telephone | Téléphone 613-437-6829 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-952-7171 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Franciscus Sent: January 28, 2016 1:08 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MDT-OSD] Using MDT to deploy Windows to Mac hardware Look who it is! Not sure if we will do dual or replace completely but just having Windows might make more sense. So did you have to do anything special with the MDT media? Do you inject drivers for the Mac just like a PC? Dan Franciscus Systems Administrator Information Technology Group Institute for Advanced Study 609-734-8138 ________________________________ From: "Bembry, Joseph" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 12:20:05 PM Subject: Re: [MDT-OSD] Using MDT to deploy Windows to Mac hardware Dual boot or just replacing OS X with Windows? Easiest method we’ve found to do replacing was to create bootable MDT media and just image it like a normal machine. Joe From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Daniel Franciscus <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 12:09 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [MDT-OSD] Using MDT to deploy Windows to Mac hardware Hi, We are researching the feasibility of using MDT 2013 to deploy Windows images to Mac hardware (not virtualized but on a local partition). We currently use Casper suite to deploy OS X to Macs. Any feedback or experience would be extremely helpful. Thanks! 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