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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

Maybe look at Unison instead then, if you need to keep backup copies of things that have changed, and you are on Windows. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#backups

Windows: DFS-R Linux: lsyncd

I've had the same problem and wasted a few days on this. The only solution I could find to allow the Chromebooks to work at school and off-site, without relying on the "Allow proxies for shared networks" checkbox, was to switch to using PAC files. I made one PAC file for staff, and one for students, then set those as user settings against staff and student OUs. If you use the Citrix Receiver for Chromebooks you will need a proxy exception for the loopback address (127.0.0.1) in the PAC file, as it actually connects to itself to launch the session. You'll also find the Citrix Receiver for Chromebooks just locks up the entire machine when too much content changes on the screen and is effectively unusable.

I would take a guess that you have STP enabled on some of your switches, but not on others. It's probably causing a timeout on the DHCP referal. If this is the case possible solutions could be: disable STP on your switches, enable the portfast STP mode on relevant ports, or set DHCP options for bootfile-name and next-server on your DHCP server rather than rely on WDS to interject with it's own settings.

I think the fastest way would be to make a DBAN USB stick and boot all machines from that, the process is pretty automated and you can remove the stick once the wipe starts. Darik's Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe and Data Clearing Have you tried creating a custom task sequence in MDT that just repartitions the disk and does nothing else? It's worth a try if you really want to do it remotely. Or upgrade to MDT2012, I've only ever experienced the problem you describe on earlier versions.

I think you create a UDEV rule for the permissions you need. gnome - How do I set executable permissions on a removable drive? - Ask Ubuntu

touch /path/to/.mntcheck

Also this is worth a look, particularly if you use anything like Citrix Provisioning Services or Deep Freeze. Windows 7 Clients intermittently fail to apply group policy at startup

I used to use the snap-ins to do some audio drivers on XP, but had to bundle them inside a 7zip self extractor to make sure that the FOG client wouldn't continue with the next snap-in or a reboot. Some silent installers just launch another process and then quit, but the self extractor will wait to clean-up after itself. This is pretty handy too: Unattended, A Windows deployment system: Unattended/Silent Installation Switches for Windows Apps

You could install the driver as a FOG snap-in, using the silent install switch on the original installer. Or investigate the HP System Software Manager which looks like you are meant to hook it into your deployment somewhere to silently install all of the drivers you need. The Admin Nexus: Installing HP Driver Packages and Software During a Task Sequence With HP System Software Manager