Using a “Windows To Go” USB boot disk to provide course-specific windows programming environments

Microsoft’s overview is at: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831833(v=ws.11).aspx

In the Fall of 2016 – Williams will be piloting one computer science programming course using windows to go drives.
In the Fall of 2018 – Williams also began using these to “Dual-Boot” macs!

To create the environment:

1) A very fast read/write USB drive is needed. In the above link Microsoft recommends certain devices, we used the Samsung T3 250 GB portable drives.

2) Create a windows to go drive using the windows to go control panel on any windows 10 computer. You can point this at a WIM file you created from a syspreped windows environment.

• Do not encrypt the drive and do not set it to boot automatically

3) Once complete, boot that created disk on any device like an iMac.

For other ideas on deployments see the website at:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/deploy/deploy-windows-to-go