Martin Zugec

It should be released next month (June). MU and WSUS are MS next generation autoupdate tools - it wont patch only Windows, but also SQL, .NET, Office etc... There are also some important changes regarding using new Windows Installer + BITS etc...

As I said - it is my favourite tool for configuring user computers... It is extremely reliable, powerfull, their support is awesome etc... There are many different filters (AD, computernames, WMI, files (even file versions), it can install software (native support for MSI), you can hide windows from users (like cmd etc.), support for batch, vbs and many, many more. My personal NO. 1 recommendation. As I found out Jerry Honeycutt have same opinion as me http://www.honeycutt.com/

Quite easy, Profile Maker is ideal for manipulating Outlook profiles. That was the first reason why I used it, now I am using it for almost everything, from software installation through configurations to inventory. You wont need to use ICW - you will generate universal configuration.

CIW is not tool for you, AFAIR you wanted to migrate pst to network... About Profile Maker, it is probably best tool for configuration management, I use it everywhere I can and I am absolutely satisfied. It is easy to use, but powerfull, and based on architecture (binary on network + xml configuration filtered from mmc) it is really easy to debug any problems. BTW it is officaly recommended by Microsoft Desktop Deployment Resource Kit...

Nope... In answer file you dont have to use defined order (this applies to categories and to settings), you only need to include settings in right category...

Easiest way is to copy .pst to user home directory on network - e.g. \\server\%username%\Outlook and then use Profile Maker to configurate outlook settings.. BTW Profile Maker is IDEAL tool for tasks like this.

2Loras: I think he is quite satisfied with command windows - he want to hide output from kill command...

Using GP... And dont add accounts, add group, so you can modify it on domain later.

You can simply copy your profile...

What are opened port from you company? What proxy do you use - if you are from bank, probably your proxy will have advanced scanning, e.g. everything must be first downloaded to proxy, scanned for viruses/IDS and them continue to user. In this case you must find "live" port. Usually (if it is allowed) you can use telnet port for this purposes. Why didnt you contact your network engineers?

Almost every killer can be silenced by using redirection to nul Example for XP: wmic process where name="process_name" call terminate > nul

Best is KOTOR (Knights of the old republic), funny is Lego Star Wars, best for multiplayer is Battlefront...

Nobody interested?

If you are using XP, you can use WMI class. wmic pagefileset set Allowed values to set are InitialSize a MaximumSize, e.g. wmic pagefileset set InitialSize=X, MaximumSize=Y

Study first http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_%28co...Dynamic_linking

Have a look here - I am looking forward for your comments. http://martinzugec.blogdrive.com/archive/26.html

Use "rmdir /s /q" to remove, it is working differently from GUI deleting.

It almost doesnt matter - you only need spam filter, that is based on bayesian method (mathematical filter. I personally use Brightmail for corporate Exchange server and SpamBayes for personal need (www.sourceforge.net)

2getwired: Microsoft is taking BartPE as serious "enemy". If it would be illegal, they would fight against it. The problem with XP Embedded is it is too expensive for antispyware tool

Please provide more informations... What do you want to install from network?

Look at my blog and try the script I posted there

Try to find some tools (I remember Offline Explorer and Teleport). They are browser-independent.

because of security reasons you cant. You can use sanur to pass password (in plaintext) to runas command or (better solution) use AutoIt and create small script... Once I created tool to create one-purpose exe files, that will launch specified command with higher privileges, I will try to find it for you.

Sorry, I have bad news for you - these two classes are officially working, but are extremely unstable. I encountered this problem few times - worst case was on my presentation on WMIC. I dont think you can do anything on this issue (well, you can, but it is not worth the time you will spend on it)

Hi JoDad! BartPE is more universal tool - WinPE is designed for deployment purposes and it was not developed for purposes you would like it to use. About offline/online - I assume you are talking about rootkits. The best method for detecting rootkits is comparison (high-level vs. low-level scan like RootkitRevealer from SysInternals works). Really easy, but still powerfull detector is Ghostbuster research from Microsoft. You will scan your filesystem from windows (and save it to file), then boot to PE medium, scan your filesystem (and save results to file) and finally compare this two files.