Speakers: Timothy Perfitt
Level: All Levels, Lecture
Excerpt: The Mac has support installing Windows for a long time, but deploying Windows can be a challenge both for Windows and Mac administrators who are unfamiliar with the process. Learn about how the Mac boots Windows, how it works with new Secure Boot in the new iMac Pro, how to customize Windows installation to install software, drivers, bind to Active Directory, run scripts, and more. If you have dual boot Macs, come and learn the ins and outs of dual boot Mac deployment including using Munki, DEP, and packages to deploy Windows in a Mac environment.
Description: The Mac has support installing Windows for a long time, but deploying Windows can be a challenge both for Windows and Mac administrators who are unfamiliar with the process. Learn about how the Mac boots Windows, how it works with new Secure Boot in the new iMac Pro, how to customize Windows installation to install software, drivers, bind to Active Directory, run scripts, and more. If you have dual boot Macs or are looking to deploy dual boot Macs, come to this session and learn the ins and outs of dual boot Mac deployment including using Munki, DEP, and packages to deploy Windows in a Mac environment. I’ll also share best practices we learned while preparing an image for deploying 5,000 dual boot Macs to teachers and students.
About the speaker
Timothy Perfitt (Twitter: @tperfitt) – Founder – Twocanoes Software
Timothy Perfitt is founder and CEO of Twocanoes Software. He started the company in 2012 in Naperville, IL in an effort to build best of breed Mac and iOS software and hardware. Taking advantage of Apple’s iBeacon and the excitement around close-proximity sensors, Twocanoes has created a short-range Bluetooth device that alerts customer-aware systems of a nearby mobile device called Bleu.
Prior to starting Twocanoes, Timothy worked for Apple for over 10 years and developed the first ever certification training for OS X and OS X server, which led him to work with the Apple engineering team that focused on Higher Education and Fortune 500 large scale environments.
Timothy graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and in 2006, received his Masters Degree in Computer Science with a thesis on large scale, distributed peer-to-peer microblogging.
Timothy lives in Naperville, IL, with his wife and 10 year old son. He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, serving in the Solomon Islands from 1991 to 1993 and is fluent Pijin, the common language of the Solomon Islands.