frankiboy_01

Hi GreenMachine, I now re-checked the CDs and discovered that the complained versions are (all) indeed "Localisation=English" in Prodspec.ini I don't know whether this is a "fetaure" of MSDN or general purpose of MS??? Sorry that I cannot help with mor detailed infos ... If you need other files. - Send me a message and I'll look for them. Greetings Frank.

Hi GreenMachine, I thought I added the languages you still are missing. Really strange! But I must telll, I just made the compilation and did not check / open the files. Especially Chinese, Japanese and Korean are on several CD's! Perhaps tomorrow I will check these CD's again to find out whether they differ. Greetings Frank

Hi GreenMachine, I just tested your new version. I started from scratch, so to say with an installation in a blank directory. First run created the directories as expected. - FINE! Then the second run to perform the real work. This brought up an first error: STEP: Have IE setup, create Download Directive File. ERROR: The system cannot find the batch label specified - NOSOURCE Looking into XPCREATE.CMD I found the line (758) IF NOT EXIST TEMP\IESOURCE\*.EXE GOTO NOSOURCE but really no jump target named ":NOSOURCE". Forgot something? ;-) Going on the command window shows several "File not found" errors. I attached a zip-File containing your log-cab and the dump of the console window as well as a directory content list. Hope this helps to get rid of the "buggies" ;-) Or did I make a mistake?? Greetings Frank PS: Sorry I forgot to tell: I used a Windows 2000 Professional CD, but I think for the above errors this doesn't matter. I'll try XP, too, soon. newfiles.zip

Hi GreenMachine, I read your request for prodspec.ini files in other languages and thought I migth give you something in return for your great work with XPC! So I browsed my MSDN collection and copied all prodspec's I discovered. (see attached zip-file. They are sorted in directories just as found on the DVD's) Additionally I found some abbreviations for languages: ARA Arabic CS Czech DA Danish NL Dutch FI Finnish FR French GER German EL Greek HEB Hebrew HU Hungarian IT Italian JPN Japanese KOR Korean NO Norwegian PL Polish BR Portuguese (Brazil) PT Portuguese (Portugal) RU Russian CHS Chinese (Simplified) ES Spanish SV Swedish CHT Chinese (Traditional) TR Turkish ------------------------------- SOURCE: Microsoft Windows Multilingual User Interface Pack I hope this helps you. Greetings and GO ON! - SUPER PROJECT! Frank. PRODSPEC.zip

Hi folks, I'm trying to build an unattended installation CD for Windows 2000. All is working fine except joining a domain. In Microsoft's "Guide to Unattended Install..." it says: So I added the Computer to the domain prior to performing the unattended install, but after finishing the PC was NOT added to my domain (remains in the workgroup "workgroup"). How should this be performed? - Waht am I doing wrong? I wanted to go the way Microsoft proposes (first add computer account in ActiveDirectory and then install) and ommit the potential security risc of adding a password in plain text. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance. Greetings Frank

Me, too! (Favourite option 3) Unfortunately I don't have access to the SUS server right now (as I'm not in office). So anything I can do is estimating... BUT I'll give it a try: The interesting script from http://hfs.littlenikita.biz/ is *.cmd (either WIN2K or WINXP - according to your OS). Looking at this file (I took WINXP.cmd) you see [...] :Q322011IF EXIST SVC-HF1\Q322011.exe GOTO Q327979downloader.exe -download http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/a/3/ea3b0e47-8142-4a8e-847c-f0d6d836d3c3/Q322011_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe SVC-HF1\Q322011.exe :Q327979IF EXIST SVC-HF1\Q327979.EXE GOTO Q810243downloader.exe -download http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Patch/Q327979/WXP/EN-US/Q327979_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe SVC-HF1\Q327979.EXE[...] My intention was: Parse this cmd-script and modify it (create a new .cmd file) to use your SUS cache as file source instead of downloading from the internet. I figured out the following steps in a first look / thought (maybe do this using a little C proggy?): 1) replace the download.exe (and it's switches) with the copy (or xcopy) command 2) the download URL contains the GUID (######-####-####-####-############) also used by SUS server to distinguish the files [i assume!] So the name of the file in the SUS cache should be (for the above example) Q322011_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU_ea3b0e47-8142-4a8e-847c-f0d6d836d3c3.exeWhere the GUID is missing there should only be one file in your SUS cache [i assume!] 3) the last parameter of the line is the location where to put it. Here you find the folder name of the XPCreate folder structure (and even the short name) http://hfs.littlenikita.biz/ to know where to put the files in XPCreate's file tree (as I'm a newbie to XPCreate, too). 4) Maybe a little "try and error" phase is to be taken to get the correct use of wildcards to find the correct files in your SUS cache. Feel free to ask, if I explained not deep enough... Greetings Frank

You definitely can use the downloaded hotfixes from your SUS-server. These hotfixes do NOT differ from those you can download via Windows Update or via Windows Catalogue or via Microsoft Downloads page. - They are all the same. If you look into your SUS server cache you will find a lot of files (according to your operating system and languagues selections) in a single folder. The file names are somewhat long and cryptical, but there is a system! 1) The name mentioned on GreenMachines hotfix list (on his webpage) can be found as part of the file name 2) If there are more than one file containing the name you can find details by using the HTTP-access to yout SUS server and going to "approve Updates" (or so) and search there again for the name and click on "details" (or "more") 3) If you are fit in writing/understanding batch scripts, you can modify the downloader script from http://hfs.littlenikita.biz I think (not 100% sure) the "cryptical part" (indeed it's a GUID) of the file names in the SUS cache can be found in his script. So if you modify the script to copy from your SUS cache you can rename and put the files in the correct place. I myself will have a look on the third possibility (if I had time...) and if I have a working script set up I will post. - If you succeed in doing this earlier - feel free to post it! I hope I helped you. Greetings Frank.