It maps to the Windows 8 control panel, "Windows To Go Startup Options" - see 
attached. You can get here by searching Control Panel for "Windows To Go", it 
shows up under the Devices and Printers category.

Aaron

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Roland Janus
Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 8:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [mssms] wtgcreator.exe option: /enableBootRedirect

It's also GPO controllable and locally trough "change the windows to go startup 
options", so I guess a registry key at the end.


From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Janus
Sent: Mittwoch, 2. April 2014 16:30
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [mssms] wtgcreator.exe option: /enableBootRedirect

That makes perfect sense.
I've looked quickly at the boot entry on a win 8 host. Nothing obvious.
I guess it changed something on the host itself then.

Anyone with any details?

How could this be scripted without using that exe?

Thanks, roland




From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schwan, Phil
Sent: Mittwoch, 2. April 2014 16:19
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [mssms] wtgcreator.exe option: /enableBootRedirect

If I understand it correctly, when a WTG boot key is configured with that 
option, if the workstation doesn't have USB set before HDD in the boot order 
but the HDD is booting Windows 8, the Win8 will recognize that the WTG device 
is present and instead defer to it to boot (I still haven't discovered yet how 
exactly that's accomplished; it must be native to Win8 because it can't rely on 
any modifications to the local boot manager/loader).

AFAIK, the enableBootRedirect only applies to Win8x host machines; with Win7 
you still have to have USB before HDD in the boot order to have it 
automatically boot into WTG.

-Phil
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From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Janus
Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 10:05 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [mssms] wtgcreator.exe option: /enableBootRedirect

What is that option technically doing?

-Roland




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