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In most cases, my customer base have decided to install Open Office applications outside of their base images.  The silent installations are fairly simple, because the install files are provided in .MSI format. Applying custom settings after a clean installation need to also be addressed.  I found this was also fairly simple.  All of the settings changed are made to the files stored in the following folder: Windows 7: “C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice.org”  [ Read More ]

Here are my favorite resources for help and resources for MDT/SCCM.  The folks that contribute to these sites are in my opinion are among the best of the best in Windows Imaging around the World. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/mdt myITforum Blog: http://www.myitforum.com The Deployment Guys: http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys Xtreme Deployment: http://deployment.xtremeconsulting.com The D-Spot: http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/ DeployVista: http://www.deployvista.com/ Mike’s Tech Blog: http://itbloggen.se/cs/blogs/micke/ MSFN Board: http://www.msfn.org/board/ TechEd Portal: http://www.msteched.com/   Many Others are out  [ Read More ]

In some cases when drivers are downloaded from the web, they are tagged as “Downloaded Files” in their File Streams and warnings appear on startup.  This can be cleared by using the SysInternals Streams utility. It is very simple to use, run it against the root directory of where the drivers are stored and let it recurse and delete all of the streams “-s –d”. Download URL: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897440

About a year back or so, Adobe transitioned to using Add-Ons to deliver their products via their website.  They eventually went further and hid their install files entirely unless you subscribe and wait for approval to be an “Adobe Distributor”.  I just wanted the Install Files.  See below to work around their efforts and grab the install files themselves: 1. Adobe Flash,  I was lucky enough to come across this  [ Read More ]

Free Applications to Convert Various Setup Files to .MSI format.