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This shouldn’t be the case. Using local profiles and a decent machine, first sign-in is 45 seconds max. Other profile types are increasingly not supported (but will work). Can you enable verbose sign-in? Are you deploying printers during logon?

…they’ll show up on radar, soon enough.

I ditched mandatory profiles a few years back due to unreliability (they had been great through XP to 8.1). Can you switch a test account to local and test?

Is it getting around your proxy entirely, perhaps due to an exception in your PAC file or similar?

If it doesn't support it, it may actually use a different tool and command set. If you risk installing it, it could **** itself incredibly hard (though I imagine it'll have failsafes to hard prevent you from doing it). Time to upgrade SQL. No way round it.

I still have some of the first laptops we ordered when I started. 18 year old Core 2 Duos (long since retired, don’t worry), should’ve kept the boxes!

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/xml-formatting-in-notepad-how-to-format-xml-files/

Can you show us the XML in some context?

If the machines are now running, you can get them to auto-merge usually, by restarting. Once merge per restart.

You'll have a load of unmerged checkpoints. If they show in the console, merge them - if not, you may need to manually merge them: https://www.nakivo.com/blog/merge-hyper-v-snapshots-step-step-guide/ The proliferation of snapshots is usually caused by your backup software - check that it's working as it should merge after backup.

I have a self-built HP server running Maiden on bare metal, it's working nicely. Another ancient Dell S8 we have, which is dying, is stable once it's booted.

I averted my eyes like a Victorian spinster, but I think it involved something pink and not appropriate for daytime TV.

Saw same here. I knew their utter lack of moderation and safeguarding would bite them one day (the bloody messaging bit!) Absolute shambles. Blocked and very reluctant to allow it back after this.

They're quite reliable! It's just oh god, the lack of power, the clogging, the handles, the plastic. My temper can be spectacular (and amusing if observing). I beat my Flymo strimmer to death and snapped it in half, and put my foot through the deck of the mower. I didn't do that out of love. Also didn't regret it.

Of the others we have, the Clevertouch ones have been okay. With docks, the HDMI signal strength is not strong (same with any manufacturer to be fair) and I have had to start pulling out faceplates to reduce the number of joints. Reducing resolution to 1080p 60 from 4k 30 works wonders too - in the advanced graphics settings/monitor section. Our oldest ones, Newline made, have been good too. I will add - my experience with any of them running Android is that it is an awful OS for that job. Slow to boot, bloated, clunky.

Sam-Rockwell-Sung-Badly? If so, yup. They’re crap. Awful software on them. Oh, and the audio stops working every few days and needs a hard reset.

Okay. Try literally any other mower. You’re welcome.

Looks like ESS are paying good money for a server farm powered by Netburst powered Xeons. With no air con.

Indeed, as @mavhc alluded to - I don't think the USB booted OS will be able to read the bitlockered volume, despite the presence of the TPM. Try it yourself.

Some of the recent Dells with a barrel connector can also charge via USB-C. I’ve not tested with many, mind.

I've heard about those. The hefty voltages and currents that can be delivered suggest you'd want really good ones, not AliExpress-sort-by-cheapest-first.

USB C only, we've done plenty of warranty returns where they've stopped charging due to the crappy ports (full motherboard replacement!) Some of them can charge through more than one of the C ports which helps, until that dies too! Generally, they're okay though really - we do have a couple of hundred.

If anything, it’ll be LEA or school directed. Everything we’ve heard is that there is no truly central push, which is great news. The choice should be up to schools - it can work well either way.

Yes, I should add - they should not be system admins. That's your role on a machine, and isn't necessary for any use cases here including when they're used at home with their own printers etc. While staff can install apps from the Store here, nothing else - it would be a security risk and a licensing headache.

We use a device profile with Always On VPN, so it works the same at home as in school. Same profile for both, and everything connects as it would (albeit slower). The profile is local, but it's not a local account. Redirection is used, but it just works - planning to migrate away from it to an extent so we now redirect Start Menus to a local copy of the folder. As long as your machines have a TPM 2.0 module, you just encrypt using that. No password required, unless it has a fit (sometimes turning it off and on again fixes that). You can have a password too, but little point. You can use Powershell, MDT build process or GP to store the Bitlocker key in the AD object - we use a PS script. They then show in the Bitlocker Recover tab.