In Windows 8, the “Display Rotation Tool” is not a required application as published. If you are receiving the “Unsupported Touchpad Device” error and you have the correct Versapad touchpad driver installed, then simply un-install the Display Rotation Tool. All front panel buttons should still work, including the Display Rotation button. The CF-19 Win8… Read More »
UEFI requires x64 AND FAT32. FAT32 only supports up to 4GB file sizes. Image files (.WIMs) are normally well larger that this. I came across a great blog post (Link Here). The guy updated the built-in LTIApply.swf to auto apply an SWM file if available. He also wrote a Powershell UI, which didn’t work for… Read More »
Here is a breakdown on installing the Mobility XE client (NetMotion) silently. Prep the install files: 1. Create a TXT file with the following name “options.inf” and save it in the same directory as the install files. Contents of options.inf: [version] Signature=”$CHICAGO$” [DefaultInstall] AddReg=NMsettings [NMsettings] HKLM,”System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetMotion\Mobility Client”,”DhcpProvidesMmsAddress”,0x00010001,0 HKLM,”System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetMotion\Mobility Client”,”MmsAddress”,0x00000000,”<ServerIP>” 2. Update the “options.inf” with… Read More »
I’ve recently come to really appreciate PowerShell as the most versatile and powerful language available natively in any/all Windows OS. i.e. 2 lines of code to ensure laptop battery is plugged in and prompt the user. If ((Get-WmiObject -Query “SELECT * From Win32_Battery”).BatteryStatus -ne 2) { Write-Host “Please plug in your laptop” } An equivalent… Read More »
The reason for a custom script, is that the customer wanted to see a prompt displaying how large the backup .MIG file would be before initiating the backup. The script was used in an SCCM 2012/MDT 2012U1 UDI Task Sequence. I kicked off the script using a “Run a Command Line” step and used the… Read More »
