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  • RSAT on Slipstreamed SP1 Install – #FAIL

    Driving me nuts that I can’t install RSAT on a machine with SP1 already installed!!!!!!!!

  • Creating an offline replica of our Windows Environment-Part 2

    In part one I setup an offline DC with DHCP, DNS, AND and a Windows 7 VM. Next I wanted to create a copy of our exchange server offline. Easy, right? Just install exchange 2003 with DisasterRecovery mode (setup.exe /DisasterRecovery). Easy. That is when the fun started.  I brought up one VM with Server 2003 R2 Enterprise,…

  • Creating an offline replica of our Windows Environment-Part 1

    I am working on my new project, upgrading our Exchange 2003 environment to Exchange 2010. I wanted to create an off line replica of our current environemnet. This is how I set about doing that Before I started, I created a new workstation – Windows 7 on our ESX server. This machine is joined to the domain,…

  • My new PowerShell install script

    I wanted to write a PowerShell script that can execute common activities involved in deploying software. We require signed PowerShell scripts, so it was not practical to rewrite the script for every piece of software. Instead, I moved the configuration to an XML file. The first function below takes an object (pulled from the XML…

  • Simple vbscript (HTA) to install fonts via SCCM

    We have a group of users that need the ability to install fonts (.ttf and .otf). They are not administrators for their machines, so we usually go down there and install the fonts using runas. Since advertised SCCM programs can run as system, I can write a script to copy the fonts into the fonts…

  • Default MAPI profiles after using Office Customization Tool

    We are rolling out a new windows 7 desktop (via sccm task sequence) and one of the packages is the newly released Office 2010. I have been using OCT to modify the outlook profile via a PRF file. We want to take advantage of “cached mode” so that is one of the setting I use…

  • Powershell signing, makecert.exe and group policy – Part 2

    In the previous post I showed how to create self signed signing certs via the makecert tool. Once I made the pfx files, and signed my script, I need to make the server I was working see the certificate chain. I created a GPO and applied it to the server OU. I added the Root…

  • Powershell signing, makecert.exe and group policy – Part 1

    We don’t have a pki infrastructure at my current job, and I like to keep my powershell scripts on my network drive. So I needed a way to run my .ps1 files off a network drive. Setting Set-ExecutionPolciy to Unrestricted seemed like a bad idea. So I looked into using a signed script and setting…

  • PowerShell is great

    Okay, I drank the Kool-Aid. PowerShell is awesome. The first thing I wanted to do was make sure my $profile is always the most current no matter what machine was on. In the past I had a batch file that I would run that would open my command prompt the way I wanted. I modified…

  • Install Windows 7 RSAT Silently and Activate All Features

    wusa /quiet /norestart amd64fre_GRMRSATX_MSU.msu ocsetup RemoteServerAdministrationTools;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-ServerManager;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-CertificateServices;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-CertificateServices-CA;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-CertificateServices-OnlineResponder;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-AD;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-AD-DS;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-AD-DS-SnapIns;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-AD-DS-AdministrativeCenter;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-AD-DS-NIS;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-AD-LDS;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-AD-Powershell;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-DHCP;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-DNS;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-FileServices;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-FileServices-Dfs;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-FileServices-Fsrm;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-FileServices-StorageMgmt;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-HyperV;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-RDS;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Features;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Features-BitLocker;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Features-Clustering;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Features-GP;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Features-LoadBalancing;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Features-SmtpServer;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Features-StorageExplorer;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Features-StorageManager;RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Features-Wsrm