There's no real "best". The way that different auditors or authorities might examine your architecture will vary.

TDE gives you encryption at rest, and lots of auditors like...

There is a file target. That's the point in the question. It asks  about persisting data in the file target, not the ring buffer.

I'm not sure what the last few posts are meant to mean. If the question or answer wrong? The question asks about the data in the file target, not the...

All objects should be in the SMO model somewhere. Dig through the classes to add what you need:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt571730.aspx

I'd agree with Sergiy here. We always used a generation process to produce a list here, so that changes, exceptions, etc. could be applied. We never used the original table...

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That article shows how. If you are getting errors, we can't see them. However, this is really a PoSh/AD issues. if you are having issues, get that working from the...

A couple things to check:

Are the services running? Check the service applet for SQL Server. You ought to find a few services there. If you have both...

A couple links to help you. Updating pictures is likely through PoSh or C#
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rakhiguha/2015/09/27/active-directory-how-to-update-user-thumbnail-photo-using-service-account/

Creating accounts could be done like this:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1293.processing-active-directory-information-in-ssis.aspx

You'll have to look through these: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/search/?q=user+login+permissions&t=s&sort=relevance

Not sure. The jobs should have been built. I'd drop it and run through the steps again. Ensure you completed everything correctly.

Single drives are always worse, since you lose everything with a failure. However, in Azure, you should have multiple copies from the infrastructure. You won't get less I/O from multiple...