@Joseph-Hales Thank you sir, yes, it would appear that may be a best practice that has to be instated. Even though I regularly update images, at no more than 2 month cycle, it shouldn’t add much extra work to the process in total.

@Wayne-Workman said in Using dumb switch to troubleshoot imaging, network related:

@Mastriani So, you put in another NIC, configured it, disabled the others, and the issue is solved?

Currently capturing a 40Gb image, total time less than 17 mins.

Yesterday, updated 2 labs of 30 machines each, in 2:45:00, from start to finish.

The Trunk version is smooth, intuitively easy, and scorching fast. All is well for a small rural district in SE Tennessee!

Well, except that it is SE Tennessee.