iamtheky

I would see if you can upgrade/switch to pdf2xl Command Line Interface Edition. http://www.cogniview.com/pdf2xl-cli.php

Assuming ya'll are stuck with the provided cabling. Your current route would be brutal as rca to vga/dvi requires a little more than an adapter, boxes averaging $60 http://search.pricewatch.com/search?q=comp...talcost_max=max I would go get some cheap HDMI cables ($10) and then get HDMI to DVI adapters ($5) - based off middle of the road pricewatch.com items **and then 4 RCA to 3.5mm jacks for sound http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5143~r.38989701

i believe you need 8.3 format names, but i suppose only if firefox3 is working (or throwing some other error) and it bombs on adobereader91 with 'cant find file....'.

Never seen this site, but they seem to have the most ridiculously long startup list I have seen, and most items are referenced http://3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html IrMon This is required for IrDA to be active.

I always start /wait msiexec.exe /i myfile.msi /q[] Can someone smart (or a finer googler than I) tell me what the difference is? I tested with acroread.msi and i get the same exact behavior regardless of syntax.

I know you gave it two whole days and all, but maybe http://sourceforge.net/projects/palsynchronizer/ i dont know if it can be automated, but seems fairly useful if not at least a replacement for copy and paste.

Barts has a nice gui that you just path at your source and it builds the output PE i386 with your plugins to drop in the root. It is fairly intuitive once you are in it, then Nu2menus instructions are cake, just some moderate xml action.

oh right, i misunderstood you. This would be my folder structure NEW OS +I386 +programs }this stuff is all PE and sits in root of the disc, then nu2menu points at the batches in this i386 -NEWXP -I386 }the xp batch sitting in the PE i386, points at the winnt32 in this folder -$oem$ -NEW2003 -I386 }the server batch sitting in the PE i386, points at the winnt32 in this folder -$oem$ I test the .iso on a virtual machine.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102435301033.aspx - uninstall outlook with business contact manager and the sql stuff if no longer needed (it leaves outlook 2007) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en - uninstall microsoft office accounting express (instructions half way down the page) That leaves you with all items in the enterprise table if I am not mistaken (as it will leave outlook, so you can add that dot). http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products...2464411033.aspx

i have my source and Bart output folders both locally. Maintaining the two structures side-by-side makes it easier for me to update and maintain each (drivers and such in the bart, updates in the o/s source) without forgetting where I am or what I am doing. I am sure there are many good defenses for separating the pieces. use @ 4gb for my source and then another 7gb free for imagex to have room for an .iso and raw source copy, per build.

http://unattended.msfn.org/ http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showforum=20 - Bart's PE/Nu2menu forums

All changes to your source are not completely documented and there is no paid support for the utility and no warranty. What about that solution makes you want to be responsible for its behavior in your environment. If they are all on your network, and you have ghost enterprise, wouldnt ghostcasting be easier than disc loading all 100?

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=127677&hl=

some of us are proxied, and always feel retarded when linked image dont show up or even pretend that they are there. my bad, im sure its a very pretty picture. can you attach an image rather than link it?

I load 8 different server flavors and three diff client flavors with BartPE and NU2menu. Nu2menu buttons trigger batch files that run diskpart and and the corresponding winnt32.exe with arguments. Still seems as though size will be your limitation, dual layer should give you more than enough room, even if you needed/wanted seperate i386s for all of them.

this batch will format you and kick off the unattended from a PE utility. SETUP=x:\path\I386 diskpart.exe /s args.txt format c: /fs:ntfs /v:CEE /q /y format d: /fs:ntfs /v:DEE /q /y start /wait %SETUP%\winnt32.exe /s:%SETUP% /unattend:%SETUP%\winnt.sif /syspart:c: /tempdrive:c: /makelocalsource /noreboot ARGS.txt select disk 0 clean create partition primary size=20000 noerr assign letter=c noerr create partition primary noerr assign letter=d noerr exit and throw the following in your winnt.sif [GuiUNattended] ProfilesDir="D:\Documents and Settings"

Wow, a week to open, the first person you hire needs A+ hard/soft at a bare minimum. Do you know what type of server you are needing, a proxy, a file server, or are you planning on hosting games on this server. In any case specs of the hardware in play will help in at least determining a reasonable solution. that is such a vicious read.

sending the command taskkill /f /im iexplore.exe at any point after completion will end IE. I'm not sure exactly where to go with detailed returns like Is it a problem with your exe running and terminating without executing all lines as desired, or is your exe hanging?

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2...edirection.aspx

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Cavi...403&sr=1-62

Plenty of ridiculously in depth articles, but this one is a nice overview http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BR...23/ai_105884200

I never got the exclamation point trick to work with runonce, but placing it before your key is supposed to prevent deletion.

Is the batch file in place after install (just no execute), or did it not copy over at all?

since it should be active maybe send "!{F4}" send {enter}

No freaking joke, brah. You caught the brunt of a fairly cheap cop out, to an all too common situation. I wouldnt use anything beyond a PE builder for your workplace deployment, especially without glancing at the license agreeement. You will find much more heartache in rendering your entire company unsupportable than you will in following the unattended guide and integrating things manually (and via the runonce). At least then you can reasonably explain and troubleshoot their behavior. It beats the "i dont know i downloaded some app off some forum" discussion with your boss. I recommend http://unattended.msfn.org/ as especially useful.