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Deployment of Win 10ENT failing.

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Hi,

I'm working as ICT support at a college, 

We have recently received our windows 10 license and have begun with the deployment of our windows 10 image to our various computers.

Now our first problem is with the deployment of a windows 10 image on newer Dell T1700 computers, the progress stops somewhere at 78% aproximately and, some computers show up as fail in the managment console, others show as still busy, but everything has stopped copying and the speed of the progress on the target computer shows 250+ MB/sec. We noticed that rebooting the computers at this point, windows 10 appears to have been installed correctly even though everything tells otherwise. 

The other problem is with the older computers, specifically Dell T3500, the deployment always fails at around 70%. One of the, in this case five computers , is connected to a monitor. I observed the deployment progress windows dissapear and go back to the "ready" window. At this point we have tried rebooting the computer to check if some have received windows 10 after all (we have noticed this with the T1700's) this is not the case. 
We disconnect internet access when the computer has started deploying images to the target computers.

Our version of Snap Deploy is Acronis Snap Deploy 5 (5.0.1 1 666)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards.

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I haven't seen this behavior before.  You may want to try a unicast deployment for a single system instead of a multicast deployment  to double check that the newtork is not dropping out during the deployment process.  I have overwhelmed some low-end switches using multicast on our main LAN segment so we've actually moved SD5 to it's on segmetned LAN (just to be safe).  However, just to rule out a networking issue, try a single unicast deployment as well and see if that helps.  

You're on 1666 beta so did you upgrade over the top of an existing version?  If so, remove the PXE component, reboot and re-install the PXE component seperately too to see if that helps with network deployments too.

As another test, how does it go if you use the recovery media from teh system and do a stand-a-lone deployment?  Any issues there either?

Last, are any of these precisions using a RAID configuration?  Just curious because the default deployment uses a Linux environment and may not have proper RAID controller drivers to detect the disks in RAID.  In those cases, you can create a bootable .wim file (winpe-based using the Windows 10 ADK for version 1511 - latest ADK is not supported in SD5 yet) and upload it to the deployment server and then deploy from it instead of the default Linux environment. If there are any RAID issues though, chances are you'll need to also inject the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) driver into the WinPE, or any specific RAID controller (I think Dell uses LSI in a lot of configurations?) 

If the systems are not using RAID as the SATA mode though, the default Linux media should be fine.  Try the network work-a-rounds first, if that doesn't help, perhaps build a new template and try again.  Is this a Windows 10 image that is new or one you've been deploying to other systems already?