How To Automate an Installation with AutoIt: When Silent installation switches fail, and re-packaging the installation is not an option, then AutoIt is the best tool for the job. It can easily mimic any manual input performed during installations. I listed some quick tips below, but I strongly urge you to review the help documentation… Read More »
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… Read More »
I previously wrote an article on how to set the default theme via a script: https://supportishere.com/how-to-set-theme-in-windows-7-via-script-for-all-users/ This article is displaying a method to simply set the Default Background image for new users in Windows 7. This method performs the following actions: 1. Takes Ownership of “C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\Windows\img0.jpg”. start /w "TakeOwn Of img0" "C:\Windows\System32\takeown.exe" /A /F "C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\Windows\img0.jpg"… Read More »
I build all of my Core images in Virtual Machine environments. There are many benefits of doing this, which I’ll leave for another article. However, some cons exist; such as the ability to change settings only related to portable computers in the core image prior to capture. Due to this limitation, I need to set… 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/… Read More »
