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I can recommend the Lenovo TS140. They have cashback offers too which take it down to around £220 for the quad core xeon model. Mine runs VMware ESXi 5.5 and it performs well for my uses (AD and the associated bits and bobs). Stick some more RAM in it (32gb max I think) and a couple of HDDs or SSDs (up to 5 SATA devices) and you have a decent tower server for virtualisation.

As long as you go with the retail boxed version of the CPU the heatsink/fan should be included. If you go for an OEM version it will be just the processor in a brown box (at lest that's how I received an OEM AMD CPU from ebuyer back in the day!)

Not sure how that would affect signal but looks cool.

Domain policy overrides local. I'd create a GPO and target at just that server.

Here is one of the many April fools from google.

Have a look in Print management > print servers > server name > printers > right click printer name > properties > advanced tab. This is on Server 2012 R2 but should be similar on older server versions.

If you are using Server 2012R2 (not sure about 2012r1 or below) there are settings in the collection properties that control this behaviour. To access them go into server manager > remote desktop services > collections, select your collection name. Under properties/properties of the connection, select tasks > edit properties > select session from the list and try the settings there.

Update the start menu shortcuts (from program files to program files (x86) for any 32bit programs) or use item level targeting if you use GPP shortcuts to target based on OS architecture.

Have a look at WSUSOffline - it should grab most of them for you.

What drivers have you included in the MDT boot image? Go to the deployment share properties, windows PE tab, select x86 from the Platform dropdown box, then the drivers and patches tab. Mine is set to only include the network and mass storage drivers. Regenerate the boot image, add it to WDS and try again.

Have you tried regenerating the boot image from scratch? Right click the deployment share > update deployment share > completely regenerate - should be the 2nd option (don't forget to update the boot image in WDS)

There is a thread on the spotify forums here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/Spotify-Printing/td-p/1065478 One of the posts mentions that they are being printed using something on port 9100 (IPP if i remember correctly), so try turning that off on a test printer.

MDT doesn't do ZTI (zero touch installation), so I'd guess that is mainly for SCCM (MDT's bigger brother). As for the SQL database i would highly recommend it as you can do lots of helpful stuff like computer naming and storing the local admin/domain account user/password in the SQL db (rather than having it in plain text in customsettings). Another example of how the database comes in handy is you can specify all dell optiplex abc computers to get a windows 8.1 task sequence/settings but you can override the task sequence for that specific users machine that needs windows 7 due to an ancient application.

There is a link to an FAQ page in the following thread: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/netbooks-pda-phones/150846-meraki-sm-licence-changes.html

Yes, however I have been caught out with a nasty bug if you try to edit a 32bit unattend.xml on a 64bit machine - it will refuse to work (certainly using the windows 8 ADK - not sure if it has been fixed in the 8.1 adk) unless you edit the xml on a 32bit machine with WSIM installed. However the default one that MDT generates works fine when deploying a 32bit image. The image you load into WDS is the LiteTouchPE_ARCHITECTURE.wim (where architecture is either x86 or x64) from the deployment share\boot folder You may be able to fiddle it using customsettings.ini, see here for more info. The most important thing to make sure is that the AD account has the necessary permissions to add computers to the domain (I'd recommend against using the domain admin account as the password would be saved in customsettings in plain text) You can create a 'special' account that has permissions to add computers to the domain - see method 5 under the section called 'Performing Domain-Joins Securely' here. If you do go this route, do not edit the permissions on the default computer container in AD and instead create a new OU and adding the domain join account permissions to the new OU.

Have you tried using the add-printer powershell cmdlet for windows 8.1/server 2012 r2 in your logon script?

Looks like it will no longer be free for organizations with 101 or more devices after 24th March. https://docs.meraki.com/display/SM/Systems+Manager+Transition+FAQ#SystemsManagerTransitionFAQ-Whatarethekeychanges

not a script as such, but you can find a list of java guids here which can be used in a script.

It probably does, but just not the type of windows in the picture.....

Can't speak for the Fujitsu but I have a slightly lower spec ts140 (than the one in the link) and it's been pretty solid running ESXi. If you hunt around you might be able to find a ts140 with 2012R2 essentials bundled for free (although this could have since expired as stocks run out).

User config > preferences > control panel > internet settings > select the policy (or create one if you don't have one) > programs tab If there is a broken red line underneath press f6 to turn it green and enable the setting.

That's one bit of software I wouldn't miss if the download page got taken down....

Right click the bar where it says title/classification/installed and make sure supersedence is ticked. It should show an icon to say what updates have been superseded.

Have a look in the event log under custom views > server roles > NPS (if you have an Windows NPS server providing RADIUS). I may be getting confused with linux boxes here but I think looking at the syslog log file (on the mac) has provided troubleshooting info for a few related issues. I find that despite being configured to use a DC as an NTP server the macs can sometimes lose time sync and reject the logon too.