[Update 4/5/2017] This post was based on the MBR2GPT that was released with the Windows Insider build 15007. There are a few things that have changed since then – the /silent switch has been replaced with the /convert switch. Also, it is highly recommended to run MBR2GPT from WinPE 1703 (this is required for earlier…
In my previous post, BIOS to UEFI made easier with Windows 10 Creators Update, I uncovered a hidden gem in the 15007 build of the Windows 10 Enterprise Insider Preview called MBR2GPT. The benefits of this MBR to GPT conversion utility is that it makes it easier to convert systems from BIOS to UEFI and…
Back in December, Microsoft published a blog (Windows 10 Creators Update advances security and best-in-class modern IT tools) where they mentioned a conversion tool for making the conversion to UEFI: “In-place UEFI conversion We’ve heard from our customers that they want to take advantage of new Windows 10 security investments like Device Guard on their…
1E BIOS to UEFI is a component of the 1E OSD Solution Accelerator that comes with 1E Nomad and enables administrators to create a true Zero Touch BIOS to UEFI Task Sequence method. This enables enterprises to get to secure Windows 10 by enabling feature like Secure Boot, Credential Guard and Device Guard to name…
I have recorded some end-to-end OSD videos that show a zero touch BIOS to UEFI OS deployment (from a single task sequence without PXE) in order to show that this could be done. I have also captured screen shots from Dell, Lenovo and HP BIOS screens to have when presenting on the BIOS/UEFI topic –…
I have seen a few blog posts lately that talk about splitting large WIM files in order to get them to fit on a USB flash drive that is formatted as Fat32. I am not exactly sure why you would want to do that when you don’t have to, as it sounds like extra work to…
Dell provides multiple tools for getting and setting their BIOS/UEFI settings. In previous posts, I have talked about Dell Command | Monitor, which can be used to inventory Dell specific hardware settings using Configuration Manager (see How to Inventory Dell BIOS and UEFI Settings with ConfigMgr Part 1 and How to Inventory Dell BIOS and UEFI…
If you have already started working with UEFI devices, then you have probably figured out a few of the gotchas when it comes to booting these devices. First, you need to boot the device using the native architecture. So, if the device you are attempting to boot is a 64-bit device, then it needs to boot with a…
The history of AZSMUG: We have been planning this meeting for a long time and I really wanted to make this a special meeting. I got the idea to start the user group from a session that I attended at the Microsoft Management Summit in 2006. A Microsoft MVP by the name of Ed Aldrich…
I was recently working on a new Secure Boot State Power BI report and I wanted to use the native view from the ConfigMgr database that was created for the Secure Boot State hardware inventory extension (see Inventory Secure Boot State and UEFI with ConfigMgr). The value that gets returned is 0, 1 or null depending…
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