How to image a surface pro to our version of windows?

[kennysarmy]

Hi,

 

Just taken delivery of a Windows Surface Pro.

 

Trial device.

 

Want to put our version of Windows 10 on it, so it can be used like all other Windows devices on our site, we image using WDS/MDT but the surface pro has no network socket - what's a reliable/good adapter to purchase that will give us Ethernet connectivity?

 

Thanks.

[DalekSec]

Any anker usb to ethernet will do the job or the Surface Docks

 

Unsure if the same in MDT as not used it (used to SCCM/Autopilot) but as the adapter is the same MAC each time you have to allow duplicate MAC addresses:

 

https://www.systemcenterdudes.com/sccm-duplicate-hardware-identifiers/

[network41]

We have a few UNI adapters they work fine , no problems at all (bought from Amazon)

[Aprice]

We've got a couple of the surface USB adapters kicking about for imaging. Work well as you'd expect.

[jmak]

I found that non-M$ USB Ethernet adaptors mostly didn't work so I create a boot disk by copying the boot.wim that's produced by MDT and then boot from USB. The combined USB to USB hub plus Ethernet are ideal for this, but you can swap the boot USB for the Ethernet adaptors with no ill effects.

 

Once connected to the Ethernet it just deploys as normal.

[p858snake]

Surface Dock

[kennysarmy]

We have a few UNI adapters they work fine , no problems at all (bought from Amazon)

 

Hi,

 

So we've received the UNI adapter, but we're not getting anywhere with it

 

These are the settings in the BIOS.

 

 

Secure Boot is disabled.

 

When the Surface Pro reboots there are no lights at all on the adapter and boot to network fails.

 

If we allow it to boot to the OS then the lights flash on the adapter, so I assume that it's working.

 

Any thoughts?

 

It's a Microsoft Surface Pro 9

[Fazza]

I hope it's not a Qualcomm CPU as the Surface Pro 9's with that CPU wont PXE boot.

[kennysarmy]

I hope it's not a Qualcomm CPU as the Surface Pro 9's with that CPU wont PXE boot.

 

i5 - cheers