I'm going to say, Spoofing MAC addresses in a production environment is not a good idea.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Huiskens Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 4:36 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [mssms] response to: ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 meets Tablets - The ca se of the "Unknown" For the full article just look at http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/maikkoster/archive/2013/09/03/configmgr-2012- sp1-meets-tablets-the-case-of-the-unknown.aspx As for this article, we found a different, yet fast solution to deploy tablets. As for the request in the article to share this, I hereby send my findings. First of all, my findings are based on a few different tablet like devices, where the surface pro / or surface pro 2 were the most annoying devices as they only have one usb-port. I think that is a real design flaw of the device.. Anyway, luckily we deploy our tablets with a docking station ( Kensington sd3000v ) where the usb2 ports are all usable ( usb 3 ports on the docking station won't work for deployment) First we tried pxe deployment with a cheap startech.com usb to lan adapter, which was unsuccessful due to the lack of pxe. For the surface pro devices we needed the surface pro Ethernet adapter ( 10/100 mbit) so deployment wasn't fast , and as described in the above article, only one device can be deployed because the mac-address would be assigned to the first computer. The solution I came up with involved this cheap startechcom device, because I found out, there is a utility which has a programmable rom, with the ability to write a new mac-address ( takes about 20 seconds) This combined with a network boot image on usb I can start the task sequence and deploy our image After the deployment, I change the mac-address of the adapter and deploy the next device. So far it seems to work. With kind regards Peter Huiskens Devices used: Startech.com Usb21000s2 Surface pro 2 tablets: kensington sd3000v dockingstation Kingston usb drive Software used: Programing utility: http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?product=LAN7500 Windows 7 workstation to program the mac-adresses ( couldn't get that utility to work on w8.1) Sccm 2012 r2
