morganw

I think you would have to retrieve all users, and then subtract admin users. Get-MsolRole and Get-MsolRoleMember should get you the admin users.

The username and password are used for proxy authentication, you don't need to be putting your administrator credentials in here to activate the software.

That has it's own problems. Incorrect locale setting when you deploy a Windows 7 image by using SCCM 2007, MDT 2010, or MDT 2012

$strRobocopyoptions = @("-e", "-zb");

Yes, unless you've stopped it. Configure offline files settings for redirected folders in Windows 7

You will get strange hangs if using redirected folders, building a new profile during logon (e.g. first logon on a machine), and you are also blocking desktop.ini files on the server. Otherwise if you aren't doing anything like offline files, the fileserver's involvement during logon should be minimal. Are you using Group Policy Preferences for anything?

What type of profile are people logging on with, and if you enable verbose startup/logon messages which stage of the logon is taking the most time? How to enable verbose startup, shutdown, logon, and logoff status Messages in the Windows Server 2003 family

Maybe try passing the RAID controller through directly, instead of passing through the storage as a removeable device? - shane cunningham | XenServer 6.2 and PCI passthrough for LSI SAS1068E

The database will be small, and the only connections are probably in the Windows PE phase and a one-time read. If unicast deployment is slow as well, then I would look for performance problems with the VM, e.g. TCP Chimney Offload.

MDT deployment is client driven, with the deployment share just being a regular share (you can run it from a Samba server if you wish). If memory usage is that bad I would imagine that this is WDS running the multicast and encountering problems. The process name (question 2 above) should confirm this and if you can deploy 5 machines with unicast without issue, it's probably an IGMP issue on a switch.

I don't think you will see a difference if you change the setting once the deployment is running. By default the EventService= line will get added to the [DEFAULT] part of the CustomSettings.ini file and I don't think that the order of settings is important here. There are a few things to look at for troubleshooting: Troubleshooting MDT 2012 Monitoring - Michael Niehaus' Windows and Office deployment ramblings - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Running an application installer without suppressing it's reboot request will do this. Differences may be down to prerequisites (such as Visual C++ runtime) being already on some machines. I've also seen installation problems when using HIDESHELL=YES with certain applications.

I must have mis-remebered and have been using software that can send with a username and password. At home I'm using Exim to send mail through Gmail. http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4

Make a Google Apps account with some kind of generic username e.g. noreply@, install stunnel on something, get stunnel to listen on port 25 and forward to Google's SMTP servers with the noreply@ credentials. Anything that needs to send mail, just point it at your stunnel install on port 25.

You could try recursively deleting NTFS streams within your driver folder, just in-case access is being blocked. streams -s -d directory Streams