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atari37

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  1. I don't have the msi so I'm using a startup script. It's being setup as a computer object and I know the system account can access the network share. This is the script Microsoft provided on their website. I only modified the path to the installer. setlocal REM ********************************************************************* REM Environment customization begins here. Modify variables below. REM ********************************************************************* REM Get ProductName from the Office product's core Setup.xml file, and then add "office14." as a prefix. set ProductName=Office2010PRO REM Set DeployServer to a network-accessible location containing the Office source files. set DeployServer=\\appserver\applications\Software\Office2010 REM Set ConfigFile to the configuration file to be used for deployment (required) set ConfigFile=\\appserver\applications\Software\Office2010\ProPlus.WW\config.xml REM Set LogLocation to a central directory to collect log files. set LogLocation=\\appserver\applications\Software\Office2010\Office2010LogFiles REM ********************************************************************* REM Deployment code begins here. Do not modify anything below this line. REM ********************************************************************* IF NOT "%ProgramFiles(x86)%"=="" (goto ARP64) else (goto ARP86) REM Operating system is X64. Check for 32 bit Office in emulated Wow6432 uninstall key :ARP64 reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432NODE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%ProductName% if NOT %errorlevel%==1 (goto End) REM Check for 32 and 64 bit versions of Office 2010 in regular uninstall key.(Office 64bit would also appear here on a 64bit OS) :ARP86 reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%ProductName% if %errorlevel%==1 (goto DeployOffice) else (goto End) REM If 1 returned, the product was not found. Run setup here. :DeployOffice start /wait %DeployServer%\setup.exe /config %ConfigFile% echo %date% %time% Setup ended with error code %errorlevel%. >> %LogLocation%\%computername%.txt REM If 0 or other was returned, the product was found or another error occurred. Do nothing. :End Endlocal
  2. I am following Microsoft's instructions on how to deploy Office 2010 Pro but the startup script doesn't work after I reboot one of my clients. This is what I know: 1. The new GPO I created and linked to the OU works because if I rename the script with .vbs (instead of .bat) or purposely make a syntax error in the script I get an error message on the client side after a reboot. In other words, the client will complain about the syntax error or wrong filename extension when it reboots. 2. I know the script works because from the same client workstation, I can navigate to the location (\\mydomain\SysVol\mydomain\Policies\{F1E3A4C0-8ABA-4AFD-8CE4-8AA8059B2171}\Machine\Scripts\Startup) of the script and double-click on the script to install Office. This tells me that I don't have a permission issue. 3. The client workstation is Windows XP and the AD Server is Windows Server 2008 R2 4. The only information related to software installation in the log is under Application and it states "Changes to software installation settings were applied successfully". 5. I run gpresult and it shows that the GPO is being applied Can anyone point me in the right directory to fix this problem? I don't know what else to try. Thanks in advance.
  3. How do I determine which root hint is being used as my external DNS server when I contact hmmausa.com? Do I run nslookup on all of them? I'm not using any forwarders. I run nslookup on hmmausa.com's DNS server and it returned without any issues. Server: DNS.server Address: 172.xx.xxx.xx Non-authoritative answer: Name: ns1.hyundai-motor.com Address: 58.87.35.12 Interesting enough, I cleared the DNS cache and typed hmmausa.com in the address bar and it created a new cache record for hmmausa.comhowever, the site did not show up in the browser. I got "server not found" message in firefox. The cached record shows... (Same as parent folder) Name Server(NS) ns.hyundai-motor.com (Same as parent folder) Name Server(NS) ns1.hyundai-motor.com Also, when I run nslookup hmmausa.com it times out. Server: dns.server Address: 172.xx.xxx.xxx DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. *** Request to dns.server timed-out
  4. It passes both simple and recursive query.
  5. I believe root hints supply the updates. I could add it myself but I rather know why root hints can't resolve the names since I don't want to add every single website that doesn't resolve.
  6. I have one AD integrated DNS server running on my network. It resolves internet names by using root hints however, I've recently discovered that it doesn't resolve some URL's. For example, when I visit hmmausa.com, nothing happens but I can ping that websites IP address. I have double checked my DNS configuration but I can't seem to find anything wrong. Can someone help me figure out what's going on here and why some websites resolve and others don't?
  7. Can someone point me to a good logon script for pushing applications via AD? Thank you
  8. The update is a private, which WSUS will not have, and it is possible that the update you have will not be in the Windows Update catalog so you can't use the WSUS 3.0 import function (it requires it to be in the catalog). There's a way, documented on this MSDN article, that describes how to import a non-catalogued (i.e. private) update into WSUS, but it's not clear exactly how to do this. What is the exact KB number of the hotfix you're trying to distribute, btw? The KB number is: KB935843 WindowsXP-KB935843-x86-ENU.exe
  9. Thanks guys...I went ahead and setup WSUS on my server and it seems to be doing its job. However, I'm having a little problem with the update the started this whole process. Problem is that, the 1700+ updates downloaded to my WSUS server doesn't have the update I'm trying to install and I can't seem to figure out how to export that update from my local drive to WSUS's database. There's a feature called import update, which takes me to a Windows website but that website doesn't seem to have the update either. Is it possible to move the update from the local drive to WSUS? It will be really cool if you can deploy software via WSUS, it looks like a very cool App. Anyone know of a good freeware that can deploy software via AD? I guess if all fails then I will have to run a script to install the .exe file. Can someone recommend a script?
  10. How easy will it be to install a Windows patch via AD to about 50 users? I just found out printing large files was causing blue screen of death on all workstation so I did a little research and and found out that it was a bug and Microsoft had a patch for it. I patched one of the workstations and it seems to be working fine now. I will like to duplicate this on all workstations over the network, preferably via AD. Can someone walk me through the process?
  11. I have two DNS server running, one is active directory incorporated (primary dns) and the other is a linux dns server (secondary). I set it up the secondary in my server 2003 as a zone. Everything seems to be working. I need to figure out how to add both suffixes (for primary and secondary) using either AD's group policy or using the DHCP snap-in. So far, I have only been able to add one at a time but I would like to add both. I know this can easily be done on each host under network configuration (tcp/ip) but I want to do it for all host at the same time over the network. Please help.
  12. Is there a setting in DNS that could be blocking .tk domain names?
  13. Yes, I have admin rights on the server but not on the domain. Your idea seems to work the way it should but I left out a couple of details in my original post. I know by adding the logon script to gpedit locally, anyone who logs on local (on the physical server) will get the mapped drives but the goal is to get the drive mapped on end users workstations. I uploaded the script with gpedit and as I suspected the script loads the mapped drives on the server but not on the workstations. Both the workstations and servers are on the same domain controller. So, is there a workaround to this? I guess something has to tell the end users workstation to load my script, that something is usually AD and my script is not on the AD server.
  14. I have a server 2003 with Full Admin rights on it, It's on a domain controller (AD) I have no control over. I need to run a logon script but since I have no control over the DC, I can't do it myself. I have to send the script to a middle man to upload and contact this middle man with changes. Is it possible to avoid the middle man and somehow run the script from the server 2003 with full permission? I don't see how this is possible but I thought I'd ask anyway.
  15. Try Undelete Plus. Thanks...That's a great tool. Adding it to my admin tool.
  16. You have a good point there but I have a very good backup system...these deleted file were saved on the local drive and I usually don't back that up.
  17. Which kind of data recovery do you need: -Deleted files -Data lost by formatting -Data from bad/faulty disk -Other kind of data loss Please specify and we may be able to help you better. Deleted files...
  18. Can someone recommend a good freeware to recover data?
  19. Scenario: I open a web browser (ie6) and visit a page like comcast.net, I login and view a video (opens a new pop up) , I click the x to close the Window when done and it crashes my browser. Has anyone seen this problem before?
  20. Has anyone experience this issue. Google toolbar is installed on one of my workstations. It works fine except that I can't use the backspace to erase text. I can however use the delete button. What could be the problem?
  21. You mention XP and Fedora. Is this setup a dual boot or virtualization? This could be a hardware or software based problem. Why don't you boot to safe mode and uninstall any recently installed applications or hardware and try rebooting again.
  22. Is the Windows XP machine on a domain?
  23. I hope you are around to help me with a quick question. I am currently using this script on your Website and it works great. My question is this: What happens when I have a drive letter already mounted on a workstation and I have that same drive letter in the CVS file for another drive? Will the script use the next available drive letter or will the script fail? In other words, I currently have a drive letter Z: Mapped to a share called "WHO" but I have drive letter Z: in my CVS file for another share called "WHERE". Will the script move on and map "WHERE" with a different drive letter or will it fail?
  24. Is it possible to add an additional drive to an already configured raid 5 file system? I have 3 disk (300GB each) and I'm about to do a raid 5 configuration, I was wondering if I could add a 4th drive to give me 900GB of storage space in the near future.
  25. Yes, it's on a domain but this is the only computer that can't get autoplay to work. It is enabled on the local workstation. Is there another configuration in Windows that I'm not aware off. I checked the configuration but checking the properties for the usb flash. I plugged the flash drive into another PC and viola, the prompt came up right away.
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