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Try this site. www.appdeploy.com I use it heavly to find switches. As for office 2003 check out the resource kit to create a mst. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/default.aspx

I was tasked to automate the settings for our default user profile. Here is a little about our company background. We have 20 plus images for dell machines. We are moving away from several images to a hardware independed image. These settings are made in the ntuser.dat file of the defaut user. I choose to make the changes in the ntuser.dat file because you can use it an existing machine with the file and it is easy to update and/or remove keys. I do not like the idea of create a tmp user and making changes to tmp profile. Then coping the tmp user profile to the default user in documents and settings. under "system properties, advanced, user profile settings." This was you can't go backwards and it's hard to update. I found these key's by googling, using msfn forums. Thanks a bunch. Another way I found the keys was by using wise setup caputre to monitor registry changes when i customized the profile. This helped me ALOT when determining where settings are stored. I'm sure there are other tools that will monitor changes made to your system. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I will try to respond. These are the settings that we set for our user profiles. I tried this on desktops and laptops and it worked. I was suprised the power settings worked on laptops. folderview options " basically show everything" Power options "always on" This is the presentation setting under power options. turn quicklaunch on disable xp tour remove language toolbar Note: This document was created assuming you have knowledge of editing the registry. This is not a complete step by step document but more of a guidelines. Start with a clean “Base” machine only the OS and updates Create a backup of the ntuser.dat in c:\documents and settings\default user Note: If you get an error message that the file is in use. Restart the computer try to copy and paste. On the “Base” machine, open regedit In Regedit. Navigate to HKU Load the ntuser.dat in c:\documents and settings\default user When prompted for a key name enter tmpuser The following settings need to be set in tmpuser hive FOLDER OPTIONS Add the following keys in their locations. Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced "Hidden"=dword:1 "HideFileExt"=dword:0 "SeparateProcess"=dword:1 "TaskbarSizeMove"=dword:0 "TaskbarGlomming"=dword:0 "NoNetCrawling"=dword:0 "FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:1 "FriendlyTree"=dword:1 "WebViewBarricade"=dword:1 "DisableThumbnailCache"=dword:1 "ShowSuperHidden"=dword:0 "ClassicViewState"=dword:0 "PersistBrowsers"=dword:1 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState "Settings"=hex:0c,00,02,00,0b,01,f8,75,60,00,00,00 "FullPath"=dword:1 "FullPathAddress"=dword:1 Power Settings Control Panel\PowerCfg] "CurrentPowerPolicy"="2" Disable XP Tour icon Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour] "RunCount"=dword:00000000 REMOVE Language toolbar Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000 This key is not a user setting!! Add the following key in the registry of the machine you are imaging. [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{540D8A8B-1C3F-4E32-8132-530F6A502090}] @="Language bar" "MenuTextPUI"="@%SystemRoot%\\System32\\msutb.dll,-325" Unload the tmpuser hive. Make a backup. Go to c:\documents and settings\default user\ create a copy of ntuser.dat. ENABLE quicklaunch "I really don't recall how i added this key. This part was a pain i tried several ways. I wrote a cmd file of what i can recall. If the CMD file doesn't work, then try this. I beleive I exported the key from my personal machine then copied it to my BASE machine and loaded it into the tmpuser. Note you need quicklaunch enabled on your machine for the key to exist. ECHO. ECHO Quick Launch ECHO Please wait... reg load HKU\TempUser "c:\documents and settins\default user\ntuser.dat" reg add HKU\Tempuser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop /V TaskbarWinXP /t REG_BINARY /d 0c000000080000000200000000000000b0e22bd86457d011a96e00c04fd705a222001c000a0100001a000000010000000000 000000000000000000004c0000000114020000000000c0000000000000468300000010000000a0b0485e898dbd0100d89ee4 2a8dbd010045fe5e898dbd01000000000000000001000000000000000000000000000000130114001f0fe04fd020ea3a6910 a2d808002b30309d190023443a5c0000000000000000000000000000000000cd971500310000000000af245cb9108057696e 6e7400002000310000000000af24a3b9100050726f66696c65730050524f46494c4553001900310000000000c12408921000 69653530302e30303000002800310000000000c124089210004170706c69636174696f6e2044617461004150504c49437e31 002100310000000000c5229d9110004d6963726f736f6674004d4943524f537e31002900310000000000d32232a61000496e 7465726e6574204578706c6f72657200494e5445524e7e31002400310000000000db2276ba1000517569636b204c61756e63 6800515549434b4c7e310000008d0000001c000000010000001c000000360000000df0adba8c0000001a00000003000000e7 182d231000000049453530305f58314300433a5c57494e4e545c50726f66696c65735c49453530302e3030305c4170706c69 636174696f6e20446174615c4d6963726f736f66745c496e7465726e6574204578706c6f7265725c517569636b204c61756e 6368000010000000050000a01a000000a3000000000000000800000002000000cc00000001000000030000004a0000000100 000040003200e6010000c424159f20004c61756e636820496e7465726e6574204578706c6f7265722042726f777365722e6c 6e6b004c41554e43487e322e4c4e4b00000040000000020000003600320048020000c424159f20004c61756e6368204f7574 6c6f6f6b20457870726573732e6c6e6b004c41554e43487e312e4c4e4b00000036000000000000002c00320051000000ec22 4639200053686f77204465736b746f702e7363660053484f5744457e312e53434600000052000000e0000000000000001600 0000000000000000000016000000000000000100000001000000aa4f2868486ad0118c7800c04fd918b437020000e0000000 00000000160000000000000000000000160000000000000001000000 /f reg unload HKU\TempUser

Ok, I have created .MST file using Office Custom Installation wizard for delpoyment. Mainly to auto fill in the exchange server %username% for Outlook. To test this out, I installed XP on a new machine and loaded office, joined the domain. When user's login all of the setting are applied. Ex. Exchange name and the %username% is filled in and outlook comes up right away without and user prompts for info. We use ghost for deployment of OS. Loaded our base image that already has MS office installed on a drive. Uninstalled Office, reinstalled Office using the (setup.exe TRANSFORMS="custom.MST" /qb-) command. Office installs fine and silently. The MST custom settings are only applied under the administator's account. Any user that logs into the machine and opens outlook is prompted to enter their name and exchange server name. Why is office only applying the MST settings for only the local administator and not everyone that logs in? Is there a setting from the previous install of Office that isn't allowing the MST settings to be applied to all users. Thanks

I have been reading the forums on how to include device drivers into a bootable CD to install in text boot. Need some help with OEM driver commands in the winnt.sif and the txtsetup.sif file. I burn the CD go to boot and windows says problem with line 10 of the INF file. The file path of the drivers on the bootable CD are C:\2000\I386\$oem$\$1\SCSI OS is Windows 2000 No IDE drive only SCSI hard drive Device drivers are adaptec SCSI 19160 PCI card The actual device drivers, txtsetup.sif and winnt.sif files are Here for download The TXTSETUP.SIF listed below Here is my WINNT.SIF. ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [unattended] OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes OemFilesPath="..\$OEM$" OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\SCSI\ DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore UnattendMode=FullUnattended Repartition=No UnattendSwitch="yes" WaitForReboot="no" TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="password" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=35 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductID=****-*****-*****-*****-***** FullName="Guest" OrgName="Guest" ComputerName=guest [identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes For the TXTSETUP.SIF file, I followed the instructions listed onGREENMACHINE MSFN site The TXTSETUP.SIF listed below, the information that I added to the file are in bold which i obtained from the drivers .inf file [sourceDisksFiles] adpu160m.sys = 1,,,,,,,3_,4,1 _default.pif = 1,,,,,,,1,2,0 0401.csv = 1,,,,,,,59,0,0 [HardwareIdsDatabase] 1394\609E&10483 = "sbp2port" GenDisk = "Disk",{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} GenOptical = "Disk" GenCdRom = "CdRom" SCSI\WormSONY____CD-R___CDU920S__ = "CdRom" GenFloppyDisk = "flpydisk" PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_00C0.DeviceDesc% = adpu160m_Inst PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_00C0&SUBSYS_F6209005.DeviceDesc% = adpu160m_Inst PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_00C0&SUBSYS_F6200E11.DeviceDesc% = adpu160m_Inst PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_0080.DeviceDesc% = adpu160m_Inst PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_0080&SUBSYS_E2A09005.DeviceDesc% = adpu160m_Inst PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_0080&SUBSYS_E2A00E11.DeviceDesc% = adpu160m_Inst PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_0080&SUBSYS_62A09005.DeviceDesc% = adpu160m_Inst PCI\VEN_9005&DEV_0080&SUBSYS_E2209005.DeviceDesc% = adpu160m_Inst [sCSI.Load] cpqarray = cpqarray.sys,4 atapi = atapi.sys,4 ADPU160M = ADPU160M.sys,4 ncrc710 = ncrc710.sys,4 aha154x = aha154x.sys,4 sparrow = sparrow.sys,4