In the next year or so, you will have to move to UEFI. If you plan on any Surface Pro style devices or tablets you will have to support UEFI to be able to deploy them.
The boot times are much faster, which is nice on enterprise hardware (the same as consumer gear). Secure boot is nice from a security standpoint. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ccollins9 Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 18:03 To: mssms Subject: Re: [mssms] RE: UEFI/GPT on Windows 7 Interesting topic. I can see the benefits in personal computing and customizing, but I'd be curious what the upside to UEFI is for y'all that are pushing forward on business computers. For us, we haven't looked at it much, we perfected our OSD process a few years ago and use the Dell CCTK command line tools to fully customize the bios during the task sequence so the techs have to do next to nothing manually when setting up a new PC. they just boot to SCCM/PXE and start the task sequence. If it's a re-image, they set the bios to defaults, clear TPM, then start task sequence. Does Dell yet have good command line control over UEFI? I'm not adversed to change, just haven't yet looked into the benefits of going to UEFI yet. On Mar 5, 2015 3:35 PM, "Kent, Mark" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Any model that will support it, essentially. Which isn't too many. We didn't go back out in the field and retrofit existing installs. Just machines going through image deployment from that point forward. Here is what I have.... Optiplex 990 1.General - Boot Sequence - check the UEFI box 2.Boot the PC with USB only (no PXE support) Optiplex 9010 1.General - Boot Sequence - check the UEFI box 2.General - Advanced Boot Options - uncheck the Legacy Option ROMS box 3.Boot the PC with PXE (no USB support noted at this time) 4.When the PC reboots the first time after applying the image, go back into the BIOS and check the box referenced in #2 above Optiplex 9020 Desktop models 1.General - Boot Sequence - check the UEFI box 2.General - Advanced Boot Options - check the Legacy Option ROMS box 3.System - Integrated NIC - check the Enable UEFI Network Stack box 4.Performance - Rapid Start Technology - uncheck the box 5.Boot the PC using either USB or PXE Optiplex 9020 All in One 1.General - Boot Sequence - check the UEFI box 2.General - Advanced Boot Options - check the Legacy Option ROMS box 3.System - Integrated NIC - check the Enable UEFI Network Stack box 4.Performance - Rapid Start Technology - uncheck the box 5.Power Management - Block Sleep - check the Block Sleep (S3 State) box 6.Boot the PC using either USB or PXE Latitude E6420 1.General - Boot Sequence - check the UEFI box 2.Boot the PC with USB only (no PXE support) Latitude E6430 1.General - Boot Sequence - check the UEFI box 2.General - Advanced Boot Options - check the Legacy Option ROMS box 3.System Configuration - Integrated NIC - check the Enable UEFI Network Stack box 4.Performance - Rapid Start Technology - uncheck the box Latitude E6440 1.General - Boot Sequence - check the UEFI box 2.General - Advanced Boot Options - check the Legacy Option ROMS box 3.System Configuration - Integrated NIC - check the Enable UEFI Network Stack box 4.Performance - Rapid Start Technology - uncheck the box Mark Kent (MCP) Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Underwood, Bob Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 2:52 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: UEFI/GPT on Windows 7 I would love that! Did you pull the band-aid off and move to it on all existing models in the environment, or just on those that were released in the last year? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kent, Mark Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 1:47 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: UEFI/GPT on Windows 7 We have been using UEFI on our Dells for the past year. It is a little quirky, you have to figure out correct settings for each model. I made a list if anyone would like to see it. Mark Kent (MCP) Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Underwood, Bob Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 1:36 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] UEFI/GPT on Windows 7 Hey folks - Just an informal survey... what is your approach for systems running in UEFI mode in your environments? (Do you allow your process to deploy in whatever mode the machine is in? Do you force a particular mode?) And related to that, what about GPT formatted system disks? With Windows 8, we standardized on UEFI/GPT for all deployments, but have stuck to Legacy BIOS for Windows 7 deployments. To ease the (eventual) transition to Windows 10, we're considering making the switch to UEFI for Windows 7 on Broadwell going forward. Just wanted to get a sense for what others are doing and what (if any) problems you've encountered with things like drivers and other standard processes. Thanks! [CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY NOTICE] Information transmitted by this email is proprietary to Medtronic and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is private, privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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