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I'm sure some of you are aware of this, but many of you may not be (or don't care lol), but there is a pretty awesome web-based XML file builder for the Click-to-Run Office setup here

http://officedev.github.io/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/XmlEditor.html

There are also MANY other valuable PS scripts and such in the GitHub repository here:

https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/blob/master/README.md

Might come in handy for some of you. The XML builder alone has definitely come in handy for me.

Figured you'd like this @scottalanmiller. Found it while cleaning my desk mess out lol

#tbt

I would be into this. Having access to a more robust lab environment would be incredible.

I'm chiming in a bit late here, but there are a lot of missing data here. This thread reads like an end user (no offense Scott, you know I love you lol) posting in an IT-peer forum to help solve their problem when the Administrator of the service is kept out of the loop on the thread - so much missing information.

Information such as:

1. Who is administering this account? We need a global admin on the tenant involved here for that Office 365 tenant. Is that you, Scott? Do you have that level of access in the tenant? What subscription do you have assigned to that user account? Is this a "business" account (e.g. Enterprise E1, E3, etc...)?

2. What type of account are you using to log in? Is it a DirSync account? Is it a pure cloud account?

3. In regards to the lost email and such - that is completely unacceptable and actually makes no sense from an admin standpoint, at least based on my knowledge and past experiences. For example, If I remove a user (i.e. stop syncing them, in the case of DirSync), it removes the account, but the email and corresponding SharePoint\OneDrive docs is still on that tenant for (I believe) 30 days and is totally recoverable either by re-syncing the account and assigning a license, or by contacting Office 365 support and working with them (I have worked with Office 365 support MANY times and have had much success with them - your experience is not typical and I am actually very surprised by it). In fact, if the user is set up properly in Active Directory and has an assigned manager, that manager is emailed automatically to let the person know that the terminated employees resources are available for review. There are also indefinite archives (and it doesn't count against any storage - it's quite slick actually). I have rules set up so that I have the email of every single employee that ever worked here, even if their account is long gone. I can download a PST of that user's email at a whim.

4. In regards to your current issues with OneDrive not provisioning - again, this is something that needs to be looked at by Office 365 support, which, if you have valid subscriptions, should be more than available to help. If a tenant service (like OneDrive for Business) isn't provisioning properly, that means something happened at a higher level that needs to be looked at by MS technicians.

@scottalanmiller said:

MS just managed to recover my old data. They are monitoring the ODfB setup issue now to see why or where it is stalling to see what can be done.

Now THAT makes total sense!

I'm sure you've seen this story, but if you haven't it's pretty telling about how it doesn't take a coding super genius to get access to your stuff.

http://www.cnet.com/news/hackers-sweet-talked-their-way-into-the-cia-directors-email-account/

@scottalanmiller said:

The problem here, though, is that it is other doctors that are the problem

Please refer to fork in electrical socket idea.

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

I remember a SW thread where Chris from Microsoft addressed this, and to upgrade your machines to 10 and image them, you have to manually run the update to 10, then go back and re-image.

To get the free upgrade, you mean? Since there is a free 8.1 -> 10 path, I could see that. Is there something similar to get from 7 -> 8?

It was my understanding that the free upgrade to Windows 10 did not include Enterprise. The upgrade to Enterprise still requires a VL agreement, so in that regard, nothing changed with the release of 10.

About your performance issues in Win 10, check your processes for misbehaving OneDrive for Business client. I've had more than one incidence with more than one user (including myself), where ODfB was running at 95% cpu or higher basically non-stop. My laptop got so hot I could barely touch it. Once I killed the process, everything cooled down and the performance recovered significantly.

Oh, also, if that happens, you may have to disconnect the library and re sync.

They need to get their shit together with this OneDrive for Business nonsense. Seriously.