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Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators
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Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators

by Jeff Stokes, Manuel Singer, Richard Diver
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
314 pages
8h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Changing from BIOS/legacy mode to UEFI mode

The main blocker, especially for releases up to 1607, is installations done in BIOS or legacy mode. You can perform an in-place upgrade in BIOS mode, but you will end up in BIOS mode again. A lot of enterprise customers want the benefits of the new UEFI mode, especially the new security features, which require the secure boot feature, which itself requires UEFI mode. So you end up having to decide between doing a smooth and fast in-place upgrade and not being able to use UEFI, secure boot and dependent services such as Credential Guard and Device Guard, or you can perform a classic wipe and load with all its problems of losing settings, needing to store user data, and so on.

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