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Does anyone have the silent install switches for Microsoft Visio Viewer and Microsoft Organisation Chart Editor (MSOC2.exe)?

Is there a way to set user account passwords via script, but not have the password available in clear text for everyone to see. i.e a similar method to encrypting the admin password in WINNT.SIF

Does anyone know where the information comes from when you run WINMSD. I'm tring to detect the system model so I can install the appropriate drivers as it's too complex to unpack them and add entries to PNP OEM path.

I'm trying to install MSOC2.exe silently but cannot work out the syntax, does anyone have it?

Is there a generic way in script to disable the USB ports and CDROM drive. I can disable the appropriate devices in the registry, but if the hardware changes then the tweaks don't work anymore. Can it be done at a higher level?

CurrentControlSet is a pointer to the control set that was used to boot the PC (usually ControlSet001) so you only actually need to change CurrentControlSet. There may be up to four control sets.

The BITS update didn't make a difference. I found something on google refering to the error number being an authentication error against ISA server, which we are using, so I'll have a look at that next.

Error page says: We're Sorry error no 0x80244021 Windows update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page.

I have an XP SP1 scripted build that was working perfectly well with the old windowsupdate.microsoft.com. When this was updated to the new site, I get the download and scan OK but when I try either the Express install or the Custom install I get an error page. (I'm also having problems with my SUS server, see my other thread) Has anyone else got problems with the new update website. It only seems to be with the scripted build. A manual build works perfectly OK.

Yes Changing this to No and rebuilding gets SUS working but windowsupdate.microsoft.com still fails and I obviously don't get the proxy settings and homepage added in.

I use VB to update a marker file in the root of the C:\ drive. An example file is called Build-xp.01.01.000 and the 000 will go to 001 ' Rename the build marker file OPTION EXPLICIT Dim fso Dim Folder, OldFile,NewFile, FileColl Dim MajorMinor Dim BuildNumber Dim FolderPath Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") wscript.echo "Finding Marker file" FolderPath = "..\XP With SP1\$OEM$\$1" Set Folder = fso.GetFolder(FolderPath) Set FileColl = Folder.Files For Each OldFile in FileColl If Left(OldFile.name,8)="Build-XP" Then WScript.echo "Old Marker " & OldFile.Name MajorMinor = Left(OldFile.name,14) BuildNumber = Right(OldFile.Name,3) BuildNumber = BuildNumber + 1 NewFile = MajorMinor & "." & Right("000" & BuildNumber,3) WScript.Echo "Renaming to " & NewFile fso.MoveFile FolderPath & "\" & OldFile.Name, FolderPath & "\" & NewFile Exit For End If Next Set fso=Nothing wscript.echo "Finished" This gets called as part of the ISO Creation command file using: ECHO Updating Build Number CSCRIPT RENAME.VBS ECHO Creating ISO...

If I have the following lines in winnt.sif: [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=1 Use_Same_Proxy=1 HTTP_Proxy_Server=myproxy:80 Proxy_Override=<local> Then the PC cannot contact my SUS server. If I remove those lines and enter the same information by hand in IE Internet Options, Lan Settings it all works. What is different about doing it in winnt.sif besides the fact it is going into the default user profile?

Thanks for that, I am using a Transform file so this solution is better.

If I run it there, it will have been applied before Office 2003 is installed. Is this ok or will Office 2003 overwrite the values?

The only problem with this is that it is based on CURRENT_USER. Is there a more global solution?