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anyone got one working ? I followed this wiki Sarah Thompson - Unattended installation of the entire Cygwin build For some reaons when i run the setup.exe -q --local-install --root c:\where\you\want\to\put\cygwin -l c:\path\to\installer\directory pointing it to the right folders obviously, it gives me an error on line 1 for setup.ini c:\cygwininstall\cygwin/setup.ini line 1: syntax error, unexpected STRING, expecting $end.... any clue?

seems like something with those 2 machines. We have all the ports running now with not issues. Strange.

So I am not sure is this is because we are deploying to more than 10 computers. We have a 12 laptop station setup for imaging. Laptop #11 and #12 pxe boot into the MS solution accelerator, but when i click through the deployment wizard i get: A VBscript RunTime Error has occured Error: 76 = Path Not Found VBscript Code: PrepareFinalScreen Any clue?

So I have a few syncronos cmds for the start panel, taskbar links, and to run "cscript.exe \\b powermgt -setactive GUID" The issue im noticing, is that these changes do not take affect unless i log into a domain account or create a new local account and log into that. For the machines on the domain that is fine, as the end user will log in with their credentials and the desktop changes occuer (short cuts appear in the start menu, outlook link shows up on the task bar, and the power management changes from balanced to high performance). How come this doesn't happen when I have the Admin account created during MDT, and auto log into that. Some of our machines will be given to students, and most likely they will just keep the machine as is with the Admin profile loging in automatically. Any ideas?

found it: powercfg -setactive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

Is there a way through MDT to tell a machine to not go to sleep after the default time (~15mins). I would like to at least change the power plan to keep the machine on while plugged in...

[settings] Priority=Default Properties=MyCustomProperty [Default] OSInstall=Y SkipAppsOnUpgrade=YES SkipCapture=YES SkipAdminPassword=YES SkipProductKey=YES WsusServer=http://keymaster SkipTimeZone=Yes TimeZone=035 TimeZoneName=Eastern Standard Time SkipUserData=YES UserDataLocation=NONE SkipLocaleSelection=YES SkipApplications=NO

you have to set UserDataLocation=NONE after SkipUserData=YES

I get 0 errors 1 warning when i deploy my OS/task sequence. It says Restore User failed or something when it finishes. They should not be restoring anythign...

i thought that was the background of the litetouch part not the windows background.. For the user icon i found a way to just copy a bmp over still wandering ha

I know in the unattend.xml file you can set the background to a .jpg Where is this .jpg stored? Is it something you keep on a network share? Also, is there a way to set the screen saver to automatically point to something on our network (like a folder of pictures)... Also can i change the default user icon, so they are all the same icon?

It was the nvidia drivers. Issue is resolved.

Ive given up with WOL. I have the bios set to auto wake the desktops at a certain time before the labs are opened, i have it set to say Turn on 2am from bios Run Maitenace Mode at 4am, shut down after running. This allows me approx 2 hours to schedule any software pushes i would need. Just the other day we upgraded to System Center 2012, so the machiens woke up at 2am, rebooted thawed at 210am, remote launche the batch file to install System center 2012 at 230am. Then reboot forzen at 330am. The machiens then proceed to their "maitenance mode" and run windows updates.

Seems like I am doing exactly that...

Well neither approach worked... any suggestions?

So im using MDT 2010 and editing the unattended file for my task sequence: Ive added Start Panel Links to the 7 oobeSystem section and then i edited the links in Link0 - 4 with: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office\Microsoft Excel 2010.lnk %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office\Microsoft Outlook 2010.lnk %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office\Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.lnk %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office\Microsoft Word 2010.lnk %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Google Chrome\Google Chrome.lnk Yet no links show up in the start menu. Do i need to enter it as C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Google Chrome\Google Chrome.lnk or "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Google Chrome\Google Chrome.lnk"

Good call on the roational drives being the bottle neck. Ill have to get with the network guys and see just where the lag is occuring.

20gig including their raw video and stuff. We have a 30tb server in the lab with 10gig connection, but they still complain it takes too long. The hdd idea was shot down with USB2.0 being a bit to slow to edit on. USB 3.0 seems to over a solution, but of course finding a USB3.0 card for the macpros that works with "ALL" hardware is hard...

Any of you guys run mac pro labs in a edu environment. We have just setup the "CFC" lab here, and have run into some issues. The machines login with AD credentials, and basically pull your files from a local network in that lab. This seems to work, except when there are 30 students trying to access 20gig profiles (Adobe Photoshop / Premiere files etc...) and it starts to lag. The issue is that we cannot assign an individual machine to a student for the term of the course as the labs are open to all students. We need a way to keep the files safe from deletion while improving the speeds. What are some methods you guys run mac pro labs ?

Adobe Premiere Elements Help | Silent install instructions for Adobe Premiere Elements 8 (Volume License version on Windows) Im following this guide but it does not work when i run start OEM.exe /UL1033 /V"SERIALNUMBER=" It just flashed and goes away

Figured it out with mandatoryapplications command thanks!

seems to be working, just sits for a few minutes i was being impatient

i really want to push a batch file or vbs through deep freeze on these machines and have it pop up with a windows "please enter computername" and you type in CSSLAB## (#=number 1,2,etc...) and then it joing the Rollins.edu domain.

I looking for a way to take 28 computers that are on the domain, and rename them and re join them to the domain. The reason is they have moved from 1 lab to another, and they should go from CSSLAB## to TEACHINGLAB## any idea?

I know there is a way to set certain application to always install on an image? Anytone have a link to it?