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The USB drive contains 2 partitions: the first containing the Windows Server Installation Media, and the second required for Mac EFI boot Make sure to set the File System to “NTFS” – this will ensure that a separate EFI boot partition is created, which is required for the USB drive to be bootable by the Mac.

Once I had the ISO, I used the a free utility called Rufus to “burn” the ISO to my USB thumb-drive. I ended up downloading a free evaluation copy directly from Microsoft 2. The first step was finding a Windows Server 2019 ISO that I could use to create the USB Installation Media. Booting the MacBook from a USB Windows Installer The steps I took to accomplish this are detailed below.ġ. Installing Hardware Drivers that work on Windows Server – Apple published a robust suite of Bootcamp drivers supporting Windows 10, but these do not always apply for Windows Server.

Booting the MacBook using the USB Windows Installation Media – It turns out that Intel-based Macs boot using EFI 1, and a separate EFI partition is required on USB drives for Macs to boot form them.

Since it is not supported by Apple Bootcamp, the two main challenges I faced when trying to install Windows Server on a Mac were: After becoming comfortable with Windows Server 2008 via free student access in college, I preferred to use Windows Server as my server OS whenever possible.