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Deploying BootCamp with Imagr & MDT/LiteTouch

#Deploying BootCamp with Imagr & MDT/LiteTouch

So, you have a Windows Deployment Server and you'd like to use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to image your Windows partitions on your dual-boot Macs.

Over the years--judging by the date of some of the posts I've seen on the topic--it seems that using MDT or SCCM to install BootCamp on a Mac en masse was more common in the past than it is now. Several folks cite their LiteTouch Task Sequences failing with this error or that ever since they upgraded from 2010 to something more modern.

There are other deployment tools out there for putting Windows on a Mac, but few are as flexible and modular as MDT--and things get even trickier in some ways with newer Macs that don't support Legacy booting, as their boot information is written to the EFI partition.

Using Windows-based installation tools ensures that the proper boot information gets written right the first time in the way Microsoft intended, no matter whether you are imaging a Legacy or UEFI-style installation