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Before you can address the concerns of how you will boot to your deployment environment or how devices will be recognized by your deployment solution, you have to use a wired network adapter.
The primary concern when selecting an Ethernet adapter is how that adapter will boot your Surface device from the network. If you are pre-staging clients with Windows Deployment Services (WDS) or if you are using Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, you may also want to consider whether the removable Ethernet adapters will be dedicated to a specific Surface device or shared among multiple devices. See the [Manage MAC addresses with removable Ethernet adapters](#manage-mac-addresses) section of this article for more information on potential conflicts with shared adapters.
The primary concern when selecting an Ethernet adapter is how that adapter will boot your Surface device from the network. If you are pre-staging clients with Windows Deployment Services (WDS) or if you are using Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, you may also want to consider whether the removable Ethernet adapters will be dedicated to a specific Surface device or shared among multiple devices. For more information on potential conflicts with shared adapters, see [Manage MAC addresses with removable Ethernet adapters](#manage-mac-addresses) later in this article.
Booting from the network (PXE boot) is only supported when you use an Ethernet adapter or docking station from Microsoft. To boot from the network, the chipset in the Ethernet adapter or dock must be detected and configured as a boot device in the firmware of the Surface device. Microsoft Ethernet adapters, such as the Surface Ethernet Adapter and the [Surface Dock](https://www.microsoft.com/surface/accessories/surface-dock) use a chipset that is compatible with the Surface firmware.
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## <a href="" id="manage-mac-addresses"></a>Manage MAC addresses with removable Ethernet adapters
Another consideration for administrators performing Windows deployment over the network is how you will identify computers when you use the same Ethernet adapter to deploy to more than one computer. A common identifier used by deployment technologies is the Media Access Control (MAC) address that is associated with each Ethernet adapter. However, when you use the same Ethernet adapter to deploy to multiple computers, you cannot use a deployment technology that inspects MAC addresses because there is no way to differentiate the MAC address of the removable adapter when used on the different computers.
The simplest solution to avoid MAC address conflicts is to provide a dedicated removable Ethernet adapter for each Surface device. This can make sense in many scenarios where the Ethernet adapter or the additional functionality of the docking station will be used regularly. However, not all scenarios call for the additional connectivity of a docking station or support for wired networks.
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When deploying with WDS, the MAC address is only used to identify a computer when the deployment server is configured to respond only to known, pre-staged clients. When pre-staging a client, an administrator creates a computer account in Active Directory and defines that computer by the MAC address or the System UUID. To avoid the identity conflicts caused by shared Ethernet adapters, you should use [System UUID to define pre-staged clients](https://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc742034). Alternatively, you can configure WDS to respond to unknown clients that do not require definition by either MAC address or System UUID by selecting the **Respond to all client computers (known and unknown)** option on the [**PXE Response** tab](https://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc732360) in **Windows Deployment Server Properties**.
The potential for conflicts with shared Ethernet adapters is much higher with Configuration Manager. Where WDS only uses MAC addresses to define individual systems when configured to do so, Configuration Manager uses the MAC address to define individual systems whenever performing a deployment to new or unknown computers. This can result in improperly configured devices or even the inability to deploy more than one system with a shared Ethernet adapter. There are several potential solutions for this situation that are described in detail in the [How to Use The Same External Ethernet Adapter For Multiple SCCM OSD](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/how-to-use-the-same-external-ethernet-adapter-for-multiple-sccm/ba-p/257374) blog post on the Ask Premier Field Engineering (PFE) Platforms TechNet blog.
The potential for conflicts with shared Ethernet adapters is much higher with Configuration Manager. Where WDS only uses MAC addresses to define individual systems when configured to do so, Configuration Manager uses the MAC address to define individual systems whenever performing a deployment to new or unknown computers. This can result in improperly configured devices or even the inability to deploy more than one system with a shared Ethernet adapter. There are several potential solutions for this situation that are described in detail in [How to Use The Same External Ethernet Adapter For Multiple SCCM OSD](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/how-to-use-the-same-external-ethernet-adapter-for-multiple-sccm/ba-p/257374), a blog post on the Core Infrastructure and Security Blog.