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If you fresh install you won't be able to type in your KMS key still. It would only accept an upgrade key, the KMS ones aren't for typing into stations.

I would personally just install your usual KMS version, no hastle then??

Find out what you can upgrade to: Dism /online /Get-TargetEditions Upgrade Windows: Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerEnterprise /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX Obviously change the Set-Edition part to your version you want to/can run. Run these from a elevated command prompt and you won't have to reinstall anythging.

A publisher file? Are they planning on making a poster of the calendar or maybe publishing it in a magazine?! What format is the data in? Its the more difficult way to go really as pushing excel to publisher looks possible as you are converting 'data' to 'information' whereas in publisher the data will likely be in context with other info and without very strict formatting rules you would be hardpushed to find a script to export it back again.

I think that Google will have to build an OS model more similar to Windows (IE better hardware abstraction) for Android to keep going on at this pace. Otherwise people will get annoyed at the lack of 'updates' for their phones. People like updates even if it only gives them different colour buttons!

Just for reference, install multiple applications installs the 'required' applications for that machine type, which usually only come around when you have the database integrated with MDT. Install Single Application is what you would want, is there anything in the second tab? I may be going mad here, sitting at home with a cold so not thinking very well at all lol

I might need to check when I look tomorrow. You can use run command line if you just want to run the msiexec command and that definitely has a run as command. I will have to double check my application installs as they are all from a share which has read only to 'Authenticated Users' meaning that anyone can read + execute the apps.

Good question.... I'm at home today!! By default MDT will connect with the local machines administrator account. I think when you select the bundle application within the task sequence you can get MDT to change the account for that taask sequence step. (So its in the task sequence rather than the individual app)

In the command line you just put the msiexec /i "pathtomsi.msi" /qn command I usually leave the working directory blank and it just uses the current dir. You can then chose the connect using credentials to your admin user with the ability to connect to the share

Lol options! My bet (but thats cus its the one I know, my VBScript isn't the best) is on using MDT as you will get better error explanations and will get a better view of where you are in the task sequences with a progress bar As I mentioned earlier a single bundle app attached to a task sequence and all the other apps as single dependencies to the bundle is the easiest way of achieving easy maintenance of the task sequences.

I would think MDT is the way to go now, its a bit of a pain to set up but has huge advantages over WDS.

Probably the easiest thing to do here is to use MDT and let it run the application as a different user. Its an option in the application settings If you chose Application with no source files or source files elsewhere on the network as the application options it will be quick to set up hehe

I use a single MDT app which is an 'app bundle' and map all the individual applications as dependencies for the big bundle app. Means you don't have to keep editing the task sequences to add new applications

lol you should be able to run the installers without mapping the network drive? Just put the full UNC path as the arguments to msiexec

Are you sure it hasn't run the installer? It is running in silent mode so you wouldn't see anything. Check in event vwr for Windows Installer entries

Actually scratch that try [color=#333333]WshShell.Run "msiexec.exe /qn /i ""t:\APPS\AB\v6\silent\abtclient6.msi""" Too many ""s lol[/color]

Is it on the same line and character? You will have to do the same to the sophos lines

That error btw on line 6 is due to the double " chars WshShell.Run "msiexec.exe /qn /i "t:\APPS\AB\v6\silent\abtclient6.msi"" The bold lettering is where the .Run command will go to due to the " effectively escaping the command early. Try altering the line to: WshShell.Run "msiexec.exe /qn /i """t:\APPS\AB\v6\silent\abtclient6.msi""""

Just out of curiosity, why aren't you using MDT to map the drives etc for installing the apps? You should be able to get a decent error code out of it then. Something else to note is that the error codes from MDT are decimal whereas most sites will list them as hex ie 0x8007002 etc. Also if you want to map drives in batch files its more friendly these days to use pushd and popd which will auto add/remove drives from network locations without causing errors which are usually just, "someone is using this dir and you have force disconnected it" etc etc. IE: [color=#333333]pushd \\ccmgmt01\its[/color] [color=#333333]msiexec /qn /i ".\abtclient6.msi" [/color][color=#333333]popd[/color] The same goes for the Sophos install. I have all mine separated though into their different MDT applications, makes management a little easier.

I know this thread is old but its all I could find when I was having this problem!! I managed to write some scripts to insert into your task sequence to allow you to upgrade the DS without having to re-edit ZTIGather.wsf each time. RS MDT Downloads | RS Software On my site I have the MDT scripts to create two new variables which can be used to point the driver group at a folder which has been 'cleaned' of all slashes etc, and there is an app so you can remotely query WMI to get the results without visiting the machine you want to image Hope this helps someone!!

Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi case (which looks *suspiciously* like a BBC Micro…) | Raspberry Pi Clearly the way to go!! I think the best way of getting them interested at the moment is the punnet, until the GPIO is easily accessible through a proper API rather than direct IO calls it will be a bit difficult for the students to learn!

Min requirements for that game are from around 2002 so pretty much any gfx card will do, however most internal intel ones recently are ok and should be fine for what you are looking at. Your PC looks like a P4 or Pentium D?? Which came from around 5-7 years ago, so its quite old for games. I agree with @Steve21 you will get much better performance with a new pc. I personally don't ever go for cheap though, its one of those situations where you get what you pay for.

It seems you will have to completely start again, I would get the original network up and running before considering virtualization though. Too many changes at once can be an absolute nightmare!!! If the network is already gone you might as well start up another server leaving the busted one as is and use it to at least migrate data across. You will have to join each and every pc back to the new domain and recreate all the users. All shares and folder permissions on shares will have to be reassigned (bet there are no docs on that!!) and then all GPO's recreated etc. Its a mammoth task. Its the same as going in to a place with no AD, but now you have data to take care of as well.

Any machine you buy for that much money will do about as much processing as the notes themselves... I would suggest saving up about 400-500 for a basic decent computer, otherwise you will be wasting your money. What is the spec of the unit you have?

MDT / SCCM use the same backend, are you using copyprofile in unattend.xml? You can run WinSAT as part of the task sequence if you want, but it won't apply an areo theme to the default profile if basic has been applied by copyprofile. You would either need to specify in Group Policy or edit the default profile