ChrisH

If I'm doing it all as VMs I would set them up on there own range and set up a router as part of that network to get internet from the main (home network).

I have found the CPU has not made much difference in a test environment.

I have 2 Microservers with a QNAP NAS for ISCSI etc. You can do most stuff virtualised though but I like the physical set up for some things, mostly it depends on situations where you end up virtualising hypervisors to run a more complicated setup and if that performs well enough for you. For most stuff I will use virtualbox on my well specced PC but for things like the higher level MS exams I prefer setting up a proper cluster using Hyper-V and VLANS etc and go from there.

Ours go to the RNIB I think, just needs one phone call.

You might wants to check your DNS scavenging for this issue.

I think once there is a viable alternative I will be changing over the auth method. I need to experiment with the new smoothwall features as they have some new features for auth.

A warning for everyone looking at MDT 2012, there is a new task sequence step called "Apply Local GPO Package". If you let this run it sets the security too high to use NTLM with proxies and probably some Samba shares as well. I tried undoing some of the settings in the local policy but it didn't do any good. I found this out after building a new reference image and I couldn't get the internet to work on IE, Chrome or Firefox. Firefox actually gave me the error message I needed to investigate further though. My Smoothie did look like it was authenticating in the log but obviously not. Solutions Disable the step in all your task sequences or set ApplyGPOPack=NO under the rules tab for the deployment share (Customsettings.ini) Hopefully this will save some people the serious hair pulling session I had yesterday

What he is saying is that software that does revert to the C: drive can be redirected using a special link. As far as the software is concerned it is going to the c: drive but really it is going wherever you direct it. So really software that goes to the c: drive should not be discounted as it can be redirected.

@edie209 This link is about DreamWeaver but I wouldn't be surprised if Fireworks was the same: Macromedia Dreamweaver v8.0 - MSFN Forum

Looking around it looks like with products from the same time such as flash and dream weaver have an MSI that is extracted during the install. You can grab this and use this. You can then define the serial during the install on the MSI command line or you will be able to make an mst for it as well.

Are you trying to create an MSI or are you extracting the MSI from the installer ?

You need to look at the database part of MDT this will suit your needs.

for /d A loop that goes through directories %i This holds the name of the current directory it has found in (*) Use a wildcard for working with multiple directories mkdir %i\Photos && mkdir %i\Documents and finish with 2 make directory command joined together with an and (&&). Every pass the %i is converted to the current folder. for /d - Loop through directory | SS64.com

Just go to the command prompt CD to the root of the directory and type: for /d %i in (*) do mkdir %i\Photos && mkdir %i\Documents Simples.

Look up what all the log files are on the client and then use the log viewer to troubleshoot. Your answer should be in there somewhere.

I would set up a folder like suggested in in post 6 and put both your install cmd/vbs there and the actual application in there. Then import in and it will put it on your server. Post your script as well if you like and I will run my eye over it been doing packages for the last couple of days so I can spot anything obvious. There is also some good examples of VB script for these MDT installs as well from one of the John Ardwick Deployment books which you can use which plays nicer with MDT as it will do logging and use some of the functions already declared in MDT.

I was buying 128 gig ones for £32 a few weeks ago. They don't seem to have any more stock though.

I think it will end up messy if you try to repackage it. Make a transform using the correct set up switch or consider something like App-V.

A bit overkill but spiceworks will do this for you.

Thanks I forgot to mention the verbose logging for time delays as well. That is a great tip about the stubpath settings I will have to have a look into a few of those as I have been adding a few custom ones and never thought to delete a few as well.

I did a lot of work on this earlier in the year. I made sure I split the gpos into different policies such as desktop settings and start menu settings etc. this allowed me to disable certain parts for testing a see what section added a massive delay. I started by enabling a section at a time and timing a new logon and any logins after that after a local profile had been set. I timed all this and once I found one of my sub sections causing a significant delay I would take note of all the settings and then make a new gpo and enable a few of the settings at once until I found the delay. I then had to decide if it was needed or if there was a better method to use.

I found it and was going to send it before I left work but @DarshanC didn't leave his email in his message.

I think I have the ones you need PM me your email and I will send them.

We use APP-V shortcuts as normal and use transform files to alter the location of other MSI based programs that we deploy. It's easy enough to do once you have done it once or twice. Packages that don't like APP-V are repackaged.

I'm trying to fix a Samsung Netbook for a friend. Symptoms: See the loading screen then just get a black screen with a moveable white cursor Have tried: Restoring from recovery partition - I start this and I get the black screen again! I don't get anything past the loading files screen Install Windows 7 from a known working USB stick - Black screen again! Safe Mode VGA mode etc etc Reset BIOS to defaults All roads lead back to the black screen apart from a live Ubuntu install on a USB stick which does boot into a full desktop. Now installing Linux is not an option so any ideas, this should be a simple reinstall really