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Hi,
I’m glad this has come up because it’s not something we’d even considered. We were turning UEFI off as a matter of course so we could PXE boot for SCCM, and that was that.
However, given the fact we’re imminently pushing to Windows 10, I think it’s high time to consider the switch. I’ve tested a couple of machines with UEFI enabled in BIOS, and it makes things so much simpler,
insomuch the only change I have to make is possibly enabling PXE if it isn’t already. To use legacy BIOS modes requires a lot of changes now, and it can differ wildly by machine. Given we also have designs on enabling encryption in a big way, it’s as good
a time as any to be visiting this.
I think it’s a safe bet UEFI will become the standard for our Windows 10 machines now.
Regards
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David Rickard
Infrastructure Architect
IS&T Directorate
Buckinghamshire New University
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From: Support issues for windows in UK HE & FE <[log in to unmask]>
On Behalf Of Chandler, Phil
Sent: 14 May 2018 17:17
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [WINDOWS-UK] Switch from Legacy BIOS to UEFI
We made the decision to switch to UEFI when we started the move to Windows 10 a couple of years ago, mainly because we wanted to make Secure Boot and Virtualisation Based Security/Credential Guard standard features.
It meant that all our Win7>10 upgrades had to be clean installs but it seemed like a good time to bite the bullet. We build using PXE and MDT and have it set up in DHCP so that if a machine does a UEFI network boot it is handed off to the Windows 10 build
system and if legacy BIOS it goes to Win7, albeit that almost never happens these days.
Phil
From: Support issues for windows in UK HE & FE <[log in to unmask]>
On Behalf Of Skender Osmani
Sent: 14 May 2018 17:08
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Switch from Legacy BIOS to UEFI
All,
Just wanted to get a feel as to how many of you have moved from using legacy BIOS to UEFI. Currently we are still configuring new PCs to use legacy BIOS and are working to get our backend infrastructure ready to support UEFI network booting.
We have number of dual boot machines (Windows and Linux) and use syslinux/pxelinux to provide a boot menu for students to choose which OS to boot. Syslinux/pxelinux does not provide full support for UEFI network boot and we are looking at iPXE as an alternative
to do the above.
We have been testing new DELL machines with Intel 8th gen processors and have found that if you configure legacy BIOS on the machine, you can no longer boot to the local disk. We also got this confirmed by DELL. This feature/limitation
will push us to accelerate the switch from legacy BIOS to UEFI.
Thanks,
Skender
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Skender Osmani
Head of Client Devices and AV Design
QMUL