Martin Zugec

Nope, it is quite easy - in my usual customer I got (wait a sec) 1647 machines at the moment. But because I am working as deployer, I am making deployment projects for many other companies. Specially small companies are great as testing department - bigger are just slowly moving towards latest technologies.

Have a look at robocopy from resource kit, it is exactly what you are looking for.

He just need to add DefaultDomainName... It is working, I use it this way.

Dont know if it will help you in this case, but there are two solutions to this problems (with GP, not cleartype): Run gpresult to see changes, that are applied, or even better, use RSoP Look in GP excel list, where are stored all possible settings

Did you try to delete desktop.ini from that folder?

Are you sure? I dont think so this should be problem, it is point2point communication

ORK Tools - Office Resource Kit... But Ralin is right - you can find a ton of articles about this

Or you can try absolutely different approach - I am using three files - unattend.txt, computer.txt and script. In computer.txt I got PC name with MAC address - the script is automatically determining PC name from this file and then modify the unattend.txt, so PC is installed using the final PC name. With this approach you can make much more things - for example (I made it few time) divide computer names by department and install different software everywhere.

Or (if you dont mind using exe instead of reg) you could use InstallRite -http://www.epsilonsquared.com

No, thanks, my girlfriend wouldnt appreciate it

Yep... Also sometimes you must use %% for variable instead of % - for example if you want to log times, you must use %%time%% instead of %time% - because of resolving variables. Easiest way to determine is to import ROE on normal PC and have a look how does it looks like in registry.

Heh, glad I was able to help

Ups, sorry, mistake, I ment \", not /"

And which process was responsible for respawning Run ASEP?

Well, point 2 means not to remove, but replace... With calc.exe for example.

If you want to use ", you must use it like with prefix /, e.g. /"parameter1 parameter2 /"

OT: Did you try Microsoft Express family products?

2Ryan: Nope, it was solved by Nero BurnRights (or similar name)... 2avillar: Download Application Compatibility Toolkit and create session with SMEs.

2albator: I deployed SP2 to more than 2000 machines. It is best SP/FP ever. And the real true is SP2 is great for home users AND for domain administrators. What do you understand under "real" firewall? Show me any firewall with domain/standart policies, boot time protection, safe lockdown mode and compatibility with GP? There are only few - Absolute Firewall and CyberArmor. Do you know that 60% of people that uninstalled any FW said it was because it was annoying to unblock outcoming communications? That is why MS included only incoming traffic and it was right choice. About Bruce Schneier, this sentence was quite catastrofic to his "professional" look - applications are not working because they included bugs, that SP2 reveiled, like anonymous DCOM calling and similar. And I really appreciated that MS said they also had buggy software and patched it rather than leaving the holes. Services? You mean essential changes like dividing RPC to two (local and network) services? The stuff CSO all around the world was calling for? Or you mean DEP protection? Network limit is one of the most favourite hoaxes all around the internet - it is limit for UNCOMPLETED TCP HANDSHAKE, it is not system-wide limit! So the only stuff it is blocking is speed of P2P, scanning tools and MOSTLY viruses. Dont change nothing to IE??? Most changes were made to IE - like binary behaviors and what is most important, finally they tried (successfuly) to solve IZ0 (Local Machine) problems... "Minor" changes like windows restrictions are just the bonus. Just have a look at Secunia - last two months only one exploit for IE, but 7 for FireFox - or you could have a look at today bugtraq - two for FF, 0 for IE. About "Your about to run a .exe this could bla bla bla " - this IS NOT the support message. This is much more important change, because it is message from AES and it means that applications like OE, Messenger or IE will be much safer.

2CArmon: So, did U tried what I mentioned?? 1.) Use RegMon to see the process that write to HKLM\...\Run 2.) Remove files (most simple way is by using PendingFileRename)

Dont think so any switch will help you... Install WinZip, run InstallRite or similar tool, make registry snapshot and import it after installation

2Ripken: Dont think so it should be problem - it is working as tunnel, so xbox is connected ONLY to your PC and PC is redirecting communication through tunnel. 2XPerties: Everything is here www.teamxlink.co.uk Didnt have problems at all...

Run command netsh winsock reset. For WU problem try this batch: @echo off Echo . Registracia kniznic regsvr32 /s msxml3.dll regsvr32 /s wups.dll regsvr32 /s wuaueng.dll Echo . Zastavenie sluzby net stop wuauserv echo . Zmazanie DataStore cd /d %windir%\SoftwareDistribution rd /s DataStore Echo . Spustenie sluzby net start wuauserv Echo . Zrestartovanie pocitaca shutdown -r -f -t 01

Dont think so... Microsoft takes SPs as permanency packages... SP1a was released only because they needed to remove MS JVM (court decision)

Using unattended on 1500+ stations... USMT for profile migration, USD for application installations, Profile Maker for configuring profiles (outlook etc.)... I think this is probably the best way, it is working great (Zero touch installation).