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Thanks for the replies, Fizban2 thats what I figured that not everyone had access to it.

I keep reading that BDD Admin 3.0 and WAIK were supposed to be ready on connect.microsoft.com and for MSDN subscribers. I am still not seing it on either. Has anyone seen these around for download? They have documentation ready for them and are offering classes and the product is not even out? Thanks

Any ides on how to perform an unnatended or silent install of this crappy burning software Dell is shipping with the GX-280 workstations. I have provided a link to the software. http://www.sonic.com/products/dla/default.asp When I perform a dla.msi /qb It starts to install and displays the following popup This application has failed to start becuase tfswcres.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. Also there is a setup.exe, I have not found any switch combination that even remotely starts an installation. Thanks

Since there is no Remote installation services section I figured I would ask the question in here. I am wondering if there is a way to modify the .osc files to allow certain applications to be selected during the install. I guess the osc file would pass a variable to the .sif file which I am currently doing. I have modified my .osc files to allow the users to select an OU in our domain. Can I add items to the .sif files that would install applications?

I have always been annoyed by the fact that Power users cannot defrag there own computers. We did not have it in our budget to purchase a defrag solution for our users either. I looked into so many different tricks that would allow the users to defrag there own hard drive or for us to schedule defrags on there hard drives and in the end none of them would work. With Autoit I created a way for a power user to defrag there own hard drive. Basically it is a combination of autoit installed, the Morpheus defrag utility, and repackaged into a MSI file. When it deploys VIA group policy it puts a icon in there start menu. When they run it defrag automatically analyzes and defrags the hard drive. For this to work we have the same local administrator password on all machines, since auto IT is actually temp using the local admin password to run defrag.