SHimmer45

here are the headers that i use on my CSV file Username,GivenName,Surname,DisplayName,UserPrincipalName,Password,Description,Homedirectory,HomeDrive,ScriptPath,Path this gives me a user with populated fields for username Given Name (1st name) surname display name the UPN password Description Home Dir & Home Dir details and the OU path

from memory i think we disabled the bluetooth network stack / the device as the area which the laptop was being used in had no requirement for bluetooth. a driver "bump" did improve the issue but didnt entirely fix it. when i was looking at the event viewer logs the laptop would always wait for the bluetooth adapter to looks for an address / network before the dhcp client did anything on the Wifi part of the card. in a word it was extremely odd. might be of some help to you?

had a similar issue with a laptop with an intel card which part of the bluetooth (or visa versa) would take a while to connect and it was because the bluetooth was looking for network connections etc and hold the rest up

Import-Csv CSV LOCATION PATH | Foreach-object { New-ADUser -Name $_.DisplayName -UserPrincipalName $_.UserPrincipalName -SamAccountName $_.Username -GivenName $_.GivenName -DisplayName $_.DisplayName -Surname $_.Surname -Description $_.Description -Path $_.Path -ScriptPath $_.ScriptPath -HomeDirectory $_.Homedirectory -HomeDrive $_.HomeDrive -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString $_.Password -AsPlainText -Force) -Enabled $True -PasswordNeverExpires $False -ChangePasswordAtLogon $True -PassThru } example of what i use to import users with currently

for the 1st name and last name add in -givenname & -lastname & -displayname (also adding the variable name from the csv) havent used add-adgroupmember myself but i wouldnt have thought the variable name needs to be in comma's? my powershell foo is rather week however. this might be useful https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ee617210.aspx

iirc you create a policy with your password requirements and then select which group you wish to assign the policy to

+1 on the above. if its a new install you will need a copy of the MCILICENCE.LIC file (i doubt that i have spelled that correctly)

for the purposes of testing i am using the domain administrator account & inputting the machine name into the MDT wizard once it boots from usb

Hi all, been using MDT2010 for years with Windows 7 quite happily deploying images a required, tested MDT2013 U2 with windows 10 and have found a "problem" where if the machine name is already part of the domain the deployment process will give it a random name. With 2010 it would join the domain regardless if the machine was already a domain member. have i missed something with 2013 in how it deals with machines which are already domain members (for example if i want to re image a room of machines) as de joining the machines from the domain before imaging is something i have not needed to do before? TIA

if you look in eventvwr it might be grumbling about the startmenu database being damaged and recreating it which causes the start menu to stop appearing or be laggy as hell. imo microsoft have added alot of complexity to something that was straight forward (i am not a luddite) to add things to and control. the fact that a 3rd party app is proving a popular and effective way of providing a good start menu experience i think is appalling. Microsoft should have included an option to install a different shell for users who want a more traditional user experience.

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brought it last week after having a dabble with the beta, mostly play "76" or DVA can be a little tricky to find a decent group through the quick game function. we be nice to be involved with a regular group of players as i think alot of the random grouping forget its about team work

If you try and install moviemaker/ essentials 2012 it will prompt for .net to be installed once it has completed it will resume the install. Seems to work ok, for me it a good package for learning video editing / creation without blowing people away with a massive interface.

Dell HP IBM will all have monitoring agents which will report faults if you login and look at them or set them to send an SNMP broadcast or install the management console (in Dells case its OME/Open manage essentials) which gathers all the reports from the agents and then takes action as required. Hot spares are useful but you imo need the alerts to say its got a problem as you dont want a situation were a disk fails and then another go while its trying to rebuild on to hot spare. i keep a selection of cold spares for when its required

erm ltsb does come with calculator?

for the IE shortcut try using DesktopapplicationLinkPath="location of IE shortcut" which in my case is "%alluserprofile%\microsoft\windows\start menu\etc etc\internet explorer.lnk

something like a virus scanner

easiest way would be to have a firewall and proxy like smoothwall express / pfsense box connected to your "test network" for example on my test machine (hyper-V) here i have a couple of DC's and test deployments which are connected to an internal only network and a smoothwall proxy which has a connection to this internal network and one connection to the main lan. All internal traffic stays within the internal only network inc DHCP requests etc. if you have a physical test network running off a single a switch grab a pc with two network cards install smoothwall setup one interface with an IP on your current "production network" setup one interface with an IP on your "Development Network" --Production network-- | | Interface with production network IP Smoothwall Interface with Guest network IP | | Switch | --Development Network-- excuse hideous diagram

would any scanning cause the part of the folder structure to have the last accessed date to be changed to a newer date which would mean it wouldnt be removed

netsh winhttp show proxy needs to show your correct proxy if it says direct connection your going to run into problems netsh winhttp set proxy "proxyaddress":"port" as above does the trick

using ent ltsb (build 10240) for testing here and it updates through a proxy ok once winhttp proxy has been set, also add the setting under the network and internet settings as well.

im sure there is a GPO which you can set with a age limit on profiles on the machine. either that or just create a scheduled task to run delprof **edit** have a look at this How to Automatically Delete User Profiles Older Than a Certain Number of Days Using Group Policy - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki

if your going to use SCCM i would install it now to see if you want to use it, other options for deployment which can be added would be MDT. WDS is very useful for network booting with MDT id then replicate your existing user structure policies and environment (GPO)

i was looking at a calculator RAID Reliability Calculator - WintelGuy.com which made interesting reading, putting some average array sizes i couldnt get the annual drive failure rate to go above 10%. but then again figures can be read in many different ways

people will still be running traditional disks in there servers while they continue to hit a good price point for capacity and performance. i wouldnt have a problem choosing a HDD over an SSD if it met the requirements i was looking for. i have seen mechanical drives in arrays which are 10 years old in heavily used file servers and they have been quite happy (temp controlled environment) so the "unreliability" "chance of failure" on paper doesn't always translate to real world usage im not very good at maths but a 40% chance of failure would seem a very high figure?