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  • 1.  Detecting boot order in Windows 7 before deploying windows 10 upgrade.

    Posted Nov 03, 2019 10:28 AM

    The organisation I'm working for are trying to remotely upgrade a great mixture of desktop and laptop machines to Windows 10. Many of our devices are failing to build at the reboot to pxe stage. We've found this was due to an incorrect patch installed at imaging stage, many devices aren't set to boot from network in the bios. While we know how to fix this for individual devices, I was wondering if anyone knows how we could get a script going in altiris to run on multiple machines to detect only the devices with the wrong boot order. Many thanks in advance.



  • 2.  RE: Detecting boot order in Windows 7 before deploying windows 10 upgrade.

    Posted Nov 04, 2019 06:01 PM

    Depending on the devices you might be able to use WMI to interrogate and adjust BIOS settings like boot order. Or just use the vendor supplied utilities like HPs BIOS Configuration utility (BCU).



  • 3.  RE: Detecting boot order in Windows 7 before deploying windows 10 upgrade.

    Posted Nov 04, 2019 11:49 PM
    None of the builds are uefi so we can't use the more modern utilities. Our scripting guru ran sql query and we've now got an xl with all the boot orders. Thanks for the suggestion.


  • 4.  RE: Detecting boot order in Windows 7 before deploying windows 10 upgrade.

    Posted Nov 06, 2019 05:24 AM

    We use WMI calls on legacy BIOS on HP PCs.