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Greetings to my home town. Most likely I'd say it was a port issue rather and a traditional filtering issue. Some LAs block ports at the firewall like 110 for pop and 25 for smtp (although these days they are more likely to be the ports used for SSL and TLS email, 587, 465 and 995). Some LAs will open them up on request, others...
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I'm not looking to discuss whether I need to virtualize this program in this thread I was sequencing with App-V 5.0 SP2 sequencer windirstat and I thought I'd include litedirstat in the same package, so I just copied the 2 addtional litedirstat files litedirstat.exe and shfolder.dll into the windirstat folder after installing windirstat and created a shortcut on the desktop pointing to litedirstat.exe Windirstat runs fine and when I select the G:\ drive I want to scan with litedirstat it scans no problem. However, when I try to run litedirstat it crashes. It crashes with the arguments G:\, %HOMESHARE% and no argument. I've tried sequencing on it's own with similar failure. The 2 xml and 1 dmp file provided mean very little to me... As anyone else tried to sequence litedirstat in App-V 5.0 and succeeded?
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I won't mention costs, but just to throw another thought in, we use separate quota for mono and colour. Pupils get x mono per day which resets overnight with extras pages at no cost, but they have to come and ask. x colour per year and they have to pay for any colour they need after that. With papercut you can script what quota any particular printer uses, when I setup originally the default behaviour was to use one quota and then automatically move to the next and we wanted total separation and hence the script (papercut support were great in directing me how to achieve this)
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I setup ivle, it was a serious pain in the ass to get going due to missing/incompatible dependancies, but it is possible...
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BTW, for local ip ranges I like to use isInNet(dnsResolve(host), "10.0.0.0", "255.255.255.0") //change as required As this handles hostnames that resolve to local addresses and ip addresses
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Just go with or, e.g. if (isInNet(host, “17.*″, “255.0.0.0″) || shExpMatch(url, "*.bgfl.org") || shExpMatch(url, "*.bgfl.eu") || 0 ) { return “DIRECT”; else return “PROXY eduproxy.bgfl.org:80″; }
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This appears to let you enter your license key and presumably download the latest version you are allowed. Download Purchased Flowol Software
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This is about the only photo I've taken just because of 'the view'. I was walking down the corridor at work and looked up and thought 'I must take a photo of that' (yes I probably should photoshop out the bin, posters and a few other bits!)
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All booked, see you all there Work cover my costs, so opt me out of the draw in favour of those covering their own costs.
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[video] Apparently this is the life of a Computer Technician
AlexB replied to abillybob's topic in Jokes/Interweb Things
I don't know about leaving the office... -
Creating Shortcuts for 32 and 64 bit computers
AlexB replied to witch's topic in How do you do....it?
GPO Computer->Preferences->Windows Settings->Environment New environment variable System variable Name: programfiles(x86) Value: C:\Program Files Set GPO with a 32bit Architecture filter -
Creating Shortcuts for 32 and 64 bit computers
AlexB replied to witch's topic in How do you do....it?
I'm afraid I'd go really simple... the variables %programfiles% and %programfiles(x86)% aren't useful, but if you create a new one, e.g. %programfiles32bit% (which I strongly feel should be part of the OS defaults) and set it to c:\program files on 32 bit machines and c:\program files (x86) on 64 bit machines and just have your shortcuts use %programfilesbit% (This could also be done by adding %programfiles(x86)% to 32 bits machines) -
For you.... probably a new coffee maker... I fear the condition of the current one
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I wouldn't be surprised to find a post on also every piece of commonly used software in school without msi installer on these boards somewhere, we tend to like our silent installs - - - Updated - - - NP, good luck. Hopefully you've put off RSI for a bit longer
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Worst case you could write/record a script to click through for you... full of pit falls and not something I can help with. Or install the annoying ones and capture the image so they are already installed. I'm afraid I take a have harsh approach here... If it cannot be silently installed, it isn't bought. That said, AppV gets round a lot of these. - - - Updated - - - No, I won't allow software like that, but as I said, AppV gets round the few that I couldn't silent install
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I'm afraid that depends on the install. A lot of properly done stuff can be done completely silently, but there is no standard method. For some examples (We don't use all these any more, but every single one was silent) Realplayer: /s (/s is won't worth a try, used a lot) App V 4.6: msiexec.exe /q ALLUSERS=1 /i "setup.msi"SWICACHESIZE="15000" SWIDCSDISPLAY="xxx APP-V" ALLOWINDEPENDENTFILESTREAMING="TRUE" SWIFSDRIVE="I" SWIPUBSVRDISPLAY="xxx APP-V" SWIPUBSVRTYPE="RTSP" SWIPUBSVRHOST="xxxx" Visual C++ 2005: Vcredist_x86.exe /Q Adobe CS3: Setup.exe --mode=Silent --deploymentFile=".\install.xml" --skipProcessCheck=1 MSC Endpoint Protection: SCEPInstall.exe /s Klite: klcodec-485s.exe /verysilent /norestart /LoadInf=".\klcps.ini" You get the idea, basically try to find silent install slash commands online or failing that, experiment (carefully)
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If your existing deployment just uses base Windows 7 (no SP) then yes, if it was a captured image with extra stuff then you'll need to capture an image from a fresh Windows 7 SP1 machine with the extra stuff too.
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Usually you would import an Operating System containing SP1 (I THINK SP1 is version 6.1.7601) and change your task sequence to use this. Even if you use a then customised, captured wim I think you need the base OS in MDT The rest I usually cover with the force Windows updates during deployment. About once a year I capture a new wim containing Windows 7 SP1 with Office 2010 with all the latest updates for both pre installed to speed up deployment a bit.
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The LiteTouchPE_x86 is just the boot image to talk to the deployment server, all it contains (as far as I know) is the bootstrap.ini to find the deployment share and network card drivers to get your hardware to be able to talk to the deployment share. So replacing the LiteTouchPE_x86 has no effect on what you are deploying, Win7, SPxx, Win 8, etc... To replace the existing LiteTouchPE_x86.wim in WDS, load the WDS console, expand down to Boot Images. For now, right click in the main window and Add Boot Image, broswe to \Boot and double click LiteTouchPE-x86.wim. Go through the rest of the steps calling it something like, new boot image. This will mean the initial WDS boot screen will ask you the choose between your existing and the new (in case it goes wrong, we haven't changed the old one this way) and if it all works you can just right click and disable the old one later.
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Okay, I think we are getting there then. Try TaskSequenceID="WINDOWS7" without the quotes (TaskSequenceID=WINDOWS7) and check that this is definately the right task sequence ID, it the the ID column within the Tash Sequences window
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Right, this bit is all about the bootstrap.ini Basically the rules.ini handles everything after the first 2 screens and "Welcome" and "Login". This can be updated without affecting the boot file, but the Welcome (controlled by SkipBDDWelcome) and the network login (control by UserID, UserPassword and UserDomain) and set by bootstrap.ini and only gets updated if you use the newly generated boot images. Usually called LiteTouchPE_x86.iso and LiteTouchPE_x86.wim (32bit). If you don't want to replace the exitsting boot image yet, just burn LiteTouchPE_x86.iso to a blank CD and boot from that (Found at \Boot)
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Again, looks fine, so my money is on the UserExit.vbs. So comment out, or if that doesn't work, remove both ;UserExit=UserExit.vbs ;OSDComputername=#GetOfflineComputername()#
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the rules.ini looks fine, best guess is the bootstrap.ini... Possibly [settings] Priority=Default Not set to default? I've never tried having these bits different, so not sure if it matters - - - Updated - - - Oh and comment out ;UserExit=UserExit.vbs ;OSDComputername=#GetOfflineComputername()# If you haven't copied the UserExit.vbs file in that could be causing the file to stop parsing.
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I don't mind, but it might be useful for those that come after use with similar problems to see the whole thread. Regardless of whether you post here or private message, if you could post a copy for your rules.ini and bootstrap.ini .... looks like you beat me to saying that, looking now...
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Did you update the deployment share and use the new wim/iso?
