drbill28

Hello, Like many I remove the Windows Apps from my image. Obviously doing so leaves behind Cortana and Edge browser. It worked fine at first. Then probably through an app update, when I sysprep my image and deploy this Edge does not appear as installed. If you click on the Edge shortcut in the tray it'll pop-up and install...sometimes. I attached a photo of what the start menu will look like. Is there a way to have Windows Apps be installed for users during deployment. Either through sysprep or a script during deployment or a script through GPO. I can't seem to get rid of this symptom, plus there's other times where we'll need to have all the normal default apps installed for OS training classes. Thanks in advance!!! I hate Windows 10

I tried an autologin in my sysprep. Automation in GSS won't let it complete. So I set it during task deployment. It works but it doesn't fix the problem. Only works if I log on manually.

Using Symantec Ghost Solutions Suite.

My default profile is customized with no apps and the apps are already removed for all users and removed out of the repository. It seems it effective on only the first logon of the system overall. After that it's fine for anyone. I have App Readiness service disabled but it only brings it to about 2-3 minutes at best. After that first logon overall, first logon is fast for anyone. It's acting like it's going through the whole thing but it shouldn't be.

Hello, The profile is about 270MB. That's not the core issue. It's only first logon for the first person, doesn't matter who. After that anyone has a faster logon even if it's their first logon.

Hello, Using Windows 10 Education CU 1703. I have sysprepped images using copy profile. I'm seeing an odd behavior with logon. Logon times can be 3-4 minutes for first logon. I'm using copy profile and have the Windows Apps completely removed except Edge and the App Readiness service disabled. By GPO I disable the sign on animation, I also have verbose logon turned on. However, when I log on with a user it does obey and not show the signon animation but the verbose logon isn't. It shows the usual "Just a moment...". Once that user logs in next logon the verbose logon message show and login is fast. Also then if I log on as any user first logon is under a minute and verbose logon is working. I'm not sure what Windows is doing here. I figured if that worked I would try an auto logon during the deployment process, that does not work to remedy it. Any ideas on what to look for? Edit: I did check GPO processing and it is processing the policies and not the reason it's slow, processing time for GPO is about 15 seconds.

Hello, Nice to find this forum. We are looking to possibly switch to SCCM from Altiris DS 6.9. We only mostly use the imaging and software deployment features of Altiris. So SCCM will cover us for most of this. But I have run into a few questions that some will certainly ask of me. In Altiris I can can have a job that has a "Run script" task and I can send just point it to a client and execute it. Same with "File copy" commands to put files on a client. What I have seen is everything is solely deployment based. So first off I can't see a way to run a task sequence on a single client that may need something without putting it in a collection and deploying the task sequence to it. Also I don't see a way to directly execute commands or send VB scripts to a client. In our environment that could quickly clutter the SCCM console with tons of task sequences to just do a simple command execution. Is there another way to do that? Thanks, Bill