Category Archives: Scripting

Install a Silent Locked Down AT&T Connection Manager instead of Watcher or consumer ACM

By | November 19, 2013
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The consumer grade ACM (AT&T Communications Manager), simply doesn’t cut it for Corporations. The installation is bloated with WLAN control, numerous useless menu items, no simple method for hard-setting your APN (Access Point Name). These settings are vital when rolling out a hundred or so machines. I came across a great resource for building silent… Read More »

MDT User Exit script to populate the OSDComputerName variable with the previous machine’s Computer Name

By | November 7, 2013
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In a Computer Refresh scenario on an un-encrypted machine, the old Computer Name is stored in plain text in the registry on the local disk.  MDT can pull in this information and toss it into the OSDComputerName variable to hasten your Deployment Wizard. 1. Update your CustomSettings.INI (Rules) to call an external script to populate… Read More »

MDT 2013 offers an astounding 37,403 lines of code for free.

By | October 28, 2013
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I took a couple of minutes out Today to pull the amount of code is offered for free by implementing MDT 2013 from Micosoft.  Here is the powershell I wrote up for querying up the number: Get-ChildItem -Path C:\HydrationCM2012R2\DS\Scripts\ -Recurse | ` Where-Object {$_.Extension -eq “.WSF” -or $_.Extension -eq “.VBS”} | ` foreach{(Get-Content $_.FullName).Count} |… Read More »

My Search and Apply .WIM Image files script with recovery partition creation.

By | September 25, 2013
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Once powershell was supported in WinPE, I converted my .VBS search and apply script over.  I add this script into my startnet.cmd, so it is started after initializing WinPE. Here are the steps of the script: Prompts the user asking them to verify that they want to run recovery. Prompts for recovery password if “$sRecoveryPassword”… Read More »

Silent install of Microsoft Security Essentials software.

By | August 30, 2013
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Its free! And works great. So if you do not run virus protection in your Organization, grab and it start! Download URL for client: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download Silent install for client: start /w “” “%~dp0mseinstall.exe” /s /runwgacheck /o Download URL for definition updates for Microsoft Security Essentials: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971606 Silent install for definition updates for Microsoft Security Essentials:… Read More »