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Had this rather annoying issue with a Dell Latitude E5420 and trying to image it with Microsoft Windows XP SP3 Professional using Microsoft WDS and MDT 2010 Update 1. Basically using the Dell driver pack the machine would image okay, but then on the mini-setup the computer would freeze saying “please wait…”, even leaving it […]

If you are lucky enough to get a software manufacturer to use MSIs for their software your life should be easier when it comes to packaging and installing software, however sometimes you end up with just an .exe installer here’s some switches i’ve found for silent or quiet installers. setup.exe /s setup.exe /silent setup.exe /sms […]

What a pain to have this happen, however once you’ve imported from PST you can run the following script from within Outlook 2010. In this example it changes the items in the “Calendar” folder under Outlook. From the Outlook 2010 client do this: Press Alt+F11 which will open the VBA window.  In the left pane, […]

Heres a nasty little problem, we have a SharePoint farm that consists of 4 servers, two Web Front Ends, and application server and a SQL server. This is Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Enterprise SP2 running on Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit), all was well until a recent automatic update was installed which broke the application […]

Sometimes the interactive logon message that you can apply to machines via GPO can get in the way. But you may not want to disable it for everyone just an OU, in which case configure this against a low down OU (i.e. one nearest the computer object) that will get precedence. GPO Computer Configuration Policies […]

A Windows XP machine doesn’t apply computer GPO on boot, all seems to be well and the GPOs can be run once logged on and all appear to be okay. You just don’t get the software installation happening or any scripts running on boot. Strangely if you set the machine to use a static IP […]