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UEFI Secure Boot.

With the release of uefi pxe boots, we can now load images on our dell computers with much less interaction during the unbox. We are still forced to disable secure boot on all new systems before we can boot them.

  1. Secure boot is a prevalent security patch that negates boot malware from infecting systems. this alone should be reason for integrating secure boot loads

  2. all our equipment ships from dell with secure boot enabled under uefi, so I feel our Dell K2000 should be able to image Dell equipment out of the box without needing to modify the bios (so i guess dell needs to enable uefi network stack by default as well...). I recognize this is an opinion, but i feel it should be pointed out.

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  • AdminJody Evans (Product Manager, Quest KACE) commented  ·   ·  Report

    We are in discussions for moving this forward, but it still requires significant levels of effort between us and Microsoft as well as third parties.

    We appreciate your patience with this issue and we understand its importance. We'll keep you posted when there is progress to be shared.

  • Carsten Buscher commented  ·   ·  Report

    The releasenotes of the SDA 8.2 includes this:

    Media Manager has an option to add SecureStartup.cab to the KACE Boot Environment (KBE).

    ESMEA-6100

  • BriggsA commented  ·   ·  Report

    i hope you guys get this fixed soon otherwise we are moving onto something else, already looking at other solutions just in case we need to, windows 11 / and hardware venders are already moving on this.

  • Jenni Keister commented  ·   ·  Report

    With Windows 11 coming out they mention "You can trust the security we’ve built into Windows 11, and if you haven’t invested in a secured-core PC, now is the time. " What makes a secured-core PC: Secure Boot is enabled in the BIOS.

  • James Mogle commented  ·   ·  Report

    This one is going to be a major fail if it's not done and Dell forces Secure Boot. Major fail to the point that we would get rid of this product if that happens.

  • Christopher Taylor commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just wanted to chime in as well that it would be at least nice if we could get an updated timeline on the status of this.

    It's been over a year now since it was moved to the "planned" state.

  • Al Rutter commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would REALLY appreciate this. Two less steps for our technicians to forget!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any update on this? Looks like it's been radio silence for almost 6 months...

  • Ken Senter commented  ·   ·  Report

    The last admin update on the topic was 14 months ago. Do we have an updated timeline on when this will be implemented?

  • Martin commented  ·   ·  Report

    As the comment below mine, any update on this? This is causing a lot of manual labour in a world of automation :)

  • Michael Kennedy commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any Ideas if this has been fixed for the next release? are there any timescales available??

    Thanks

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any update on this? I am still unable to UEFI Pxe boot if secure boot is enabled.

  • DirkHaex commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any update on this topic? I presume this is an issue for many customers.

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