pauledavey

Has anyone here scriped any of the power management in windows 2000 as part of their install? I want to script the configuration of Hibernate and turn monitor off after.. for example? Anyone know where these keys are in the registry? Im having problems locating them all..

If you want to use the Dell Asset tag as your computer name the easiest way of doing so will be to have a runonce section of your unattend call a vbscript. In the vbscript you can use WMI to obtain the asset tag and place in a variable. Then use NSET.exe (from the win2k resource kit) and the variable you have captured to rename the computer to the asset tag For information on WMI search on technet HTH Paul

I was wondering how you go about making a GUI menu for winpe1.2 like the one showed in the install editor post? What tools do you use. Could you just do this in HTML and VBScript??

OK dont worry. Ive answered my own question. I was being *dumb*

OK, I wasnt local admin (whoops) all works ok now and has compiled ok. However, because I wanted to add bits to it I made the ISO afterwars with OSCDIMG I run the following: oscdimg -lwinpe -h -n -o c:\winsrc\custpe c:|winpe.iso However the image does not boot!!! How come?

OK I have created a folder called pebuild on my harddisk in this folder I have copied the contents of the winpe folder from the winpe1.2 select cd. I have also added factory.exe and netcfg.exe to this folder from the I386 folder on the winpe1.2 select cd I have created a folder called winxp and copied the entire winxp sp1 cd into this folder keeping the original structure. I have run the command as below: c:\pebuild\mkimg.cmd c:\winxp c:\pebuild I do not want an ISO at this stage. I get the following error: Unable to build Hive from inf files I am a local admin and running this on a win2k O/S PC Help please? Why do i get this error??

Anyone got any ideas??? Please?

Is it possible to use the tools supplied in the adminpak.msi file and the mmc console in windows pe. It boot up with pe and run Active Directory Users and Computers. Run the mmc to gfet to system info etc etc Has anyone done this? Is it possible?

As I said in the previous post i dont want to use BARTS PE, I wan tot use MS PE!!!!

Anyone?Please? I know it isnt meant to be supported in this version, but has anyone found a way around this, with the MS 1.2 version, NOT bartPE ?? Any help would be very muich appreciated. Thanks in advance

Does anyone know a way to get WMI working under Windows PE please??

Do a search on the web for AEFDISK.EXE A good free util that will let you do what u want to do , and is scriptable

I think that using WMI is the way to go, as it is very flexible. Hopefully once I've got all this working, I can stick a web frontend on it. Would be nice to run this via an http page on your IIS server.. no need for a client install then.

once the app is finished it will be free source, and it does ask you whjat OS you want to install. At the moment it supprots win2k, winxp and win2k3

Thats what im doing basically but with a gui. Basically the program runs as follows: 1) Create a dist\%os% folder with $oem$ structure. 2) Choose hotfixes already downloaded from a database or download new ones and add to the database by linking to the corporate update site. 3) Choose drivers to be included with the build from a database or download and add new ones to the database 4) select applications from a database and select silent installation options if required. Ability to add new applications and update database with new silent install approaches. 5) Create your unattend.txt or winnt.sif file and create sysprep structure as well if required. THis is all done automatically and includes the oempnpdriverspath line, populated by the PROGRAM NOT the USER! 6) Finalise the distribution point and create an ISO if required. 7) Burn the ISO to dvd or cdr media Feedback??

thanks for the feedback. Hope to have a BETA release by the end of this month. THanks again Paul

assuming that the PC's are HP or compaq for example, you can always set the PC name the same as its asset tag in the bios for example. Failing that use teh serial number of the PC as its computername. Then use WMI and vbscript to pull that data and feed it in to Netset.exe(from win2k resource kit) to set your computername and IP info on each PC. You would run your script at the runonceex stage of the build. HTH Paul

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Ok guys. I have been working on writing an application in VB6 (I'm not a .Net user yet) to aid me with my unattended installation creation process. At the moment it lets you select an OS, servicepack and hotfixes in a GUI interface and then creates an OS distribution point, complete with $oem$ folder structure. Im working on the add drivers part now, using access to hold a database of drivers, so you can add to it and select the driver name and version. It will then copy the relevant files to the distribution. Finally it asks a few questions, similar to setup manager and automatically creates your unattend.txt file for you (along with the pnpdrivers line, dependant on what drivers you pick). What I want to know is: 1) Has anyone else already done this? 2) Anyone got any great idea's for features to include not already mentioned 3) To obtain the computer name Im utilising WMI to get the computername from the bios(assuming that the bios has an asset tag feature, and the computer name is set in there). Is there a utlity to get the motherboard or computer make if the bios doesnt support an asset tag feature. I want to completley automate everything. Ie computername will become: HP9000NSxxx where xxx is random numbers Thoughts and idea's appreciated. Regards, Paul Davey