Believe me, it wasn't IT who purchased these models, but we still have been tasked with imaging them to our standard. While I understand XPS being a consumer model, Dell does provide cab files for XPS models and there aren't many non-enterprise imaging reasons to use CAB files. We just used the list of drivers and went out to each vendor's driver site and downloaded them manually.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Garner Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 12:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] RE: Dell X15 9530 Right on both. It's not a Dell only problem. The Microsoft Surface Pro series of devices do not support Windows 7 either. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 9:09 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: Dell X15 9530 1. XPS are home user computers 2. Why would someone even try to run Win 7 on a touch enabled device? I mean, I hate Windows 8 but I'd run it over 7 on a touch device. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 9:15 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: Dell X15 9530 To your question of "Why hasn't Dell provided Windows 7 drivers for the XPS 15?" Dell designs the XPS platforms to focus on the latest technology, both from a hardware and software perspective. With that being the goal, the XPS systems don't typically support older OSes as they are designed to be used with the latest OS available. Thanks, Warren Byle Dell | Business Client Systems Management Product Manager office +1 512 724 2626 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Join the conversation Dell TechCenter<http://www.delltechcenter.com/> Twitter: WarrenByle<http://twitter.com/WarrenByle> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Townsend, Robbie Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 8:35 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [MDT-OSD] Dell X15 9530 Has anyone been successful at imaging an XPS 15 9530 with Windows 7 x86 using SCCM? We noticed Dell has not provided anything but Windows 8.1 drivers for this model (why?) These have the 32 GB SSD and 500 GB SATA drives. We got a list of all the Windows 8.1 drivers and then went the various mfg. driver sites and downloaded Windows 7 versions of each. We know we have turn off UEFI and secure boot, but was wondering if anyone had a working TS that will account setting the 500 GB drive as C:\ and put the OS on there, but still utilize the SSD feature. Thanks for any help. Robbie Medical University of South Carolina ________________________________ 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. ________________________________ 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.
