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Hey thanks for all your help @Sebastian-Roth. This helps me look into things more.

Today I will try to setup a sandbox VM so I can look into playing around with 1.6.

Thanks again!

Thanks for your response @Daniel-Miller! It looks like I overlooked this plugin; it seems to be generally what I am looking for. There definitely seems to be issues related to provisioning with plugins (as has already been mentioned in the link you shared). Currently I can either have the printers auto-add using the persistent group and have snapins not run (which essentially breaks the provisioning process) or I can have Snapins run but not use the persistent group.

I have run at least a test or two where I think I got both to work but it may have been a fluke as I can’t really replicate that. I will keep plugging along.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

@mckay You are welcome. This is what the forum is all about! 🙂

Happy new year!

Hey @Daniel-Miller and @george1421 thanks again for your effort in helping me figure this out. I think the complexity (for me) for what I was about to do scared me into thinking of a roundabout approach to solving this issue. I think I found a better solution than what I was originally trying to do (and WAY simpler). I will post here in case this will be of use for anyone in the future.

Rather than appending a date to the hostname so I can change the computer name I decided to start out with the date appended to the hostname so that renaming the computer would be exactly how I want it to be then for my other requirements (adding the user to be admin of the computer) I simply removed the date from the hostname to come up with the username.

Basically, if my username is bobsmith and today’s date is 2019-12-06, I will name the host: bobsmith191206 then in my Powershell script I just need to set $userName = $env:computername -replace '[0-9]' then the hostname remains bobsmith191206 and now I have a variable $userName that now equals BOBSMITH

Anyhow, that is one of those… so easy it is dumb solutions. Not sure why I didn’t think of it earlier. Thanks again you guys for helping me to think outside of the box I stuck myself in.

Thanks again for your help. I will research more what the System User can do. It looks like I am out of luck to do things that require elevated permissions (such as enabling Bitlocker) using a SnapIn. I think I will start to evaluate other ways to do post-provisioning scripts/tasks.