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Sat, May 17 2008 22:32

SystemSherlock - snapshot using GUI or CMD

Recently I wrote about SystemSherlock Lite - really nice snapshoting tool that supports command line... I also posted small utility for parsing log files. After that I started to heavily use SystemSherlock - and I must say that it is really really great...
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Wed, May 14 2008 13:43

Make snapshots of filesystem and registry using command line

Some installers can be very mysterious - this suddenly applies for MSI packages, even using full logging, it is not easy to find out which registry keys or files were modified\deleted\added. If you have application that is using some custom installer...
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Thu, Jun 21 2007 14:22

Applications with hardcoded paths

In my citrix environment, I am trying to install on applications to D:\ drive. Most applications doesnt have problems with this, however some of them requires installation to C:\ drive. Sometimes you can fix these applications yourself, sometimes you...
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Mon, May 28 2007 21:50

What is Microsoft missing at deployment field?

As you maybe know, I am no longer deployment specialist - now I am specializing on SBC (Server Based Computing), however I hope so there are still few comments and I left and sounds reasonal :) Linux environment got big advantage with rpm packages - installation...
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Tue, Apr 11 2006 9:43

One common question about AutoLogon

This is question I got quite often - when I enable autologon (for example for deployment purposes), even when I logoff and I want to change user, it will automatically logon back! Answer is quite simple - if you check http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid...
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Wed, Mar 1 2006 9:22

Get rid of old .ini files - redirect them to registry!

If you remember, loooong time ago (Windows 3.x) we used .ini files for setting almost everything. These files were often placed in %WinDir% (which is quite disaster when you try to implement LUA). What can you do about it (instead of logging, creating...
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Wed, Nov 9 2005 9:53

LUA post no. 2 - using different user account for application

Well, sometimes you encounter application, that just WONT run under user... Many people are trying to solve this by running that particular application under different account... They use RunAs+Sanur or AutoIt RunAsSet command... However there is also...
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Wed, Oct 12 2005 9:08

Interview with Johan Arwidmark about deployment

Here we go! This is second interview, now with Johan Arwidmark and we talked about deployment... As you can see, Johan have same opinion as me about availability of WinPE ;) 1.) What tools are you missing most in deployment today? Multicast, offline image...
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Thu, Oct 6 2005 14:54

JIT Setup - really nice feature and most people dont know about it!

Well, when I talked with Noise in discussion under one of my previous posts, I decided I will write something about this feature. It is called Active Setup. When new user logged on first time, their profile is created from Default user and ntuser.dat...
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Mon, Oct 3 2005 15:56

Deployment presentation no.3: User profiles

Hey guys! As maybe some of you know, I am working on series of (free) presentations about (free) deployment tools & techniques. First two part were successful - right now I am preparing third part, which will be about user accounts and application...
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Thu, Sep 22 2005 14:13

BartPE + USMT

I wanted to move to next step - I finally decided to leave MSDOS to stay in grave and use BartPE... Everything is working fine - however I encountered one (logical) problem... You cant use USMT to migrate user profiles to network when you boot using PE...
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Sun, Sep 18 2005 22:28

Windows Installer a.k.a. Advanced Setup Manager

One of the most common problems with unattended installations are typos (as I wrote before)... How to solve them? You can use dictionary for your favourite text editor (Crimson Editor or dictionary for Word). This is one solution. Remember Setup Manager...
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Sat, Sep 17 2005 15:23

Most common problems during deployment

I spoke about this few days ago, these are most common problems during deployment projects: including toooo much settings in .sif files - many people are trying to include everything they can in their answer files - but when you encounter problems, you...
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Fri, Sep 16 2005 17:00

SAM (Software Asset Management) - what about paid solutions?

Not a long time ago I encountered nice page from Microsoft, where you can search for SAM tool of your preference... Check it out! I recommended it already to few people that were searching for software asset tools... http://www.microsoft.com/resources...
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Fri, Sep 16 2005 16:35

Free Asset Management

Yesteday I had presentation about deployment - it was first part of series, where I want to cover every deployment topic. I was talking about theory of deployment and then I spoke about planning.... Part of the planning phase is inventorize you software...
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Fri, Sep 16 2005 10:07

Troubleshooting WSUS - Client

This is question I see almost every day - client problems with WSUS... Most of the solutions are quite simple - do you have generated corresponding groups in WSUS server? are you sure your registry settings are correct? This is often cause of troubles...
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Thu, Sep 15 2005 6:14

Batch abstractions 2

Ok, I found some time, so lets go! Set Ini.Include.Servers=Server Set Ini.Include.Paths=Paths Set Path.Server.Ini=\\%UserDNSDomain%\Netlogon\IniFiles For /f “usebackq delims== tokens=1-2” %%i IN (`Set Ini.Include`) Do ( For /f “usebackq...
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Thu, Sep 15 2005 4:27

Batch abstractions...

I really HATE static scripts - and most of administrators use them. Static script means that paths, server names etc. are hardcoded to these scripts. I am using quite simple method to workaround. First method is using variable for current directory. This...
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Thu, Sep 15 2005 0:55

Now lets say something about SDS

SDS is the most important project for me right now... SDS is free management software ala SMS/Altiris/Unicenter... It all began when I began preparations for my next presentation - it will be about deployment, however using free tools. What I want to...
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