Originally posted by coder
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And it's a fact that most organizations have crappy Windows deployments. During the days of Windows 7, a business outsourced their IT support to my employer and we had to assist them for a Windows 7 rollout over SCCM. I don't know if the image they used was broken or not, but it was the worst performing Windows 7 installation I ever had the misfortune of using. Windows would start with broken display drivers and then switch the desktop back to the Windows 7 Basic theme, launching stuff like Internet Explorer and Chrome were dead slow, startup and shutdown times were plain bad, etc.
Wherever there was an opportunity, i bypassed their SCCM infrastructure and used retail Windows DVDs to perform the install, then loaded their volume license product key to activate it and hunted down the individual drivers. Needless to say, those computers installed with the retail image were way more performant and reliable than the SCCM image.
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