i was on a field visit recently and came across an interesting dilemma. the administrators i worked with indicated that the turnaround time on a newly imaged machine would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 48 hours. this was something that i couldn't get my mind to engage. if the image process itself took an hour or so, throw in a few minutes to unpack it, set it up, connect it, pop the disc in and run it, etc... why was it taking 48 hours or longer? well, it seemed that our antiquated imaging process caused delays of up to 48 hours before a newly imaged machine would receive all the required security updates. rather than using something like going to windows update, the administrators chose to let the process work through on its own. looking into this, our problems were created by a couple of things that could easily be addressed. sms client installation script is only available as a machine startup gpo. this requires the machine to be rebooted twice. it had to receive t
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