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Booting SCCM Task Sequence Media via USB on iMacs

  • February 21, 2014
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Has anyone been able to get SCCM 2007 R2 Task Sequence Media (i.e. WinPE) to boot via USB on an iMac?

For imaging our dual boot iMac labs we currently use DeployStudio (but are beginning our move to Casper next week) for the Mac side and SCCM for Windows. However, as we only have SCCM 2007 R2 and not R3 or 2012, we don't have the option of pre-staged media. I've seen plenty of posts about how to use pre-staged SCCM media to install dual boot Macs using Casper and WinClone, but to use that we'd need to upgrade SCCM so would like to confirm there isn't another way before we commit resource to that.

Currently we use CDs but this is slow, and trickier now given that new iMacs don't have optical drives. We've had to rule out SCCM PXE boot as it conflicts with Netboot and other services on our network. We've previously had no luck getting SCCM USB's to boot on Macs, hence us having to resort to CDs.

Best answer by ChrisSVCarter

Have an answer of sorts to this now. It isn't officially supported and doesn't work on pre-14,2 iMacs, but seems to work out the box with the 14,2 models.

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  • March 3, 2014

Have an answer of sorts to this now. It isn't officially supported and doesn't work on pre-14,2 iMacs, but seems to work out the box with the 14,2 models.