MDT Lite Touch or Zero Touch?
>From what I recall, MDT Litetouch should be intelligent enough to just blow away the existing Bitlockered partition and continue. Same with the TPM, but I haven't had a Dell in a while (I get a new XPS 13 next week). From: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 6:05 AM To: mdt...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [MDT-OSD] Can't Do Bare Metal on Bitlockered PC - Dell BIOS Issue Sorry if I've asked this before, it's been on my list of things to fix for a very long time and I'm just now actually getting to it... When doing at bare metal deployment on any PC that has had the disk encrypted with bitlocker I have two issues: 1. I have to manually going into diskpart and blow away the partitions. Shouldn't the TS do that for me? 2. I have to clear the TPM in the bios manually. i. On the newer Dell laptops this in itself is a challenge. I find that I must pray to Michael Dell, hold me tongue just right and stand on my head to start with. If I do all that just right I have to clear the TPM, activate the TPM and then clear it again and then load the bios defaults in the security node or I get an error when I try to setup the BIOS in my task sequence. I see this problem on the currently shipping Latitudes, the 6400 takes one more step that I must completely power it off after doing all those steps and power it back on or it fails. Am I the only person seeing this issue? _____ John Marcum MCITP, MCTS, MCSA Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP _____ _____ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer.
