Dual boot OS X and Windows XP Pro w/ managed users

This video demonstrates how a managed user with no admin rights and firmware passwords enabled, is allowed to dual boot between OS X and Windows XP Professional. We accomplished this using the Jamf software Casper Suite that we use to manage our 6,000 Macbooks.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• dual
• boot
• OS
• Windows
• managed
• user
• casper
• jamf

[fredfed5]

how do i remove membery from the pc if the member is FULLL!!! and the pc wont start up alll the way but it will let me do into options

[TheShockwavevids]

wow thats very cool, congratz

[m3bays]

thares a macbook in the back see and the screen is lower

[larkdog]

I tried posting this several times but youtube is being a punk. My site is in my profile if you click on it. Thanks for watching.

[mpsrig]

cool good for them what is ur site url

[mpsrig]

in what?

anyway what i meant was that boot camp supposedly requires a 1 disk retail copy of windows and even bulk licensing doesn't bring that down as low as some of the other packages

anyway, i totally respect this knowing the developer paid for it because that to me symbolizes they want to keep their customers even though you switched away from micro$oft.

if they had not done this which is absurdly kind and uncommon, i would have sooner found an alternative and/or not locked down windows.

[larkdog]

the Cross Over API so now we just run that natively on the Mac side. The developer was suppose to release the web based version two years ago but can't get their act together. It has changed and we no longer dual boot. More info can be found on my site

[larkdog]

There is a lot more to it than just that. We did not purchase retail copies, we purchased a one time edu license for 6,000 machines, which was at a reduced rate, which the developer of the app paid for. This was for assessment testing software. Our school district uses this software to assess students current skill level in certain subjects and then the data is assessed and those students needing help in certain areas get that help. The developer has since then wrapped their application in

[mpsrig]

yeah well if ur gonna buy that many retail copies of windows and deal with all this it must be a pretty damn important app with no mac alternative. personally if i were to drop that much extra coin i would want the users to be able to use windows for whatever they needed since it's there anyway rather than forcing them to use it solely for one app which as i said there is probably a mac alternative unless it's autocad which shouldn't be running on macbooks anyway.

[larkdog]

@mpsrig I am not sure how consistent the -nextonly switch is. That way everything is set permanently each time and what I want to accomplished is ensured. We only needed windows to do one thing, and we only wanted to deal with that one thing. I still had the occasional client get stuck in Windows indefinitely and had to have one of us rebless their drive.