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 »
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 »
Adobe Reader: 1. Download latest .EXE ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/ 2. Extract .MSI and .MSP files using the “-nos_o and -nos_ne” arguments. AdbeRdrXXXX.exe -nos_o”C:\SomeFolder” -nos_ne 3. Install using msiexec /i and /p commands. start /w “” c:\windows\System32\msiexec.exe /i “%~dp0AcroRead.msi” /qn /norestart start /w “” c:\windows\System32\msiexec.exe /p “%~dp0AdbeRdrUpd11003.msp” /qn /norestart Adobe Flash: *Updated links for msi download: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/pdc/24.0.0.194/install_flash_player_24_active_x.msi https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/pdc/24.0.0.194/install_flash_player_24_plugin.msi… Read More »
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848796.aspx Due to how busy I constantly am, a majority, if not all, of my scripting is still done in VBS code. Its simply easier to just whip together a VBS script using PrimalScript than learning the proper way to write and execute the powershell script. With SCCM2012 and MDT2012 supporting PS scripts out-of-the-box, there… Read More »
In many Organizations, the AD support team is separated from the team in charge of Imaging. The AD team naturally is protective with their setup and fight any GPO setting that would result in more responsibility to their staff. So that leaves us in some occasions having to turn to Local Group Policy to apply the settings we want.… Read More »
