AZ-104 Certification Practice Question #20

Question

Your company has an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that is configured for hybrid coexistence with the on-premises Active Directory domain.
The on-premise virtual environment consists of virtual machines (VMs) running on Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host servers.
You have created some PowerShell scripts to automate the configuration of newly created VMs. You plan to create several new VMs.
You need a solution that ensures the scripts are run on the new VMs.
Which of the following is the best solution?

Accepted Answer

To automate the initial configuration of newly created VMs, the scripts must run early in the provisioning cycle. Windows Setup natively searches for and executes `%windir%\setup\scripts\SetupComplete.cmd` immediately after the operating system installation completes but before the first logon screen appears. It runs under the Local System context, making it ideal for bootstrap tasks like joining the domain or installing initial agents. While GPOs (Option C) can run startup scripts, they depend on the VM already being successfully joined to the domain and successfully communicating with a domain controller to retrieve policies, which typically happens *after* the initial provisioning scripts have already run.

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