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The guide seems right but as i didn't ever tried deploying with MDT or WDS, i can't tell for sure if it will work.

From the guide the reg file should go in the minint folder.

For XP keyboard layouts are stored there: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts". I hope your custom one was compiled properly as a dll because that what the OS is looking for.

To run a wsus server, you don't need AD at all, you just need a computer (VM or physical). Then to have the client computer to register on the wsus, you need to set them up with policies (or reg entries): Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate] "WUServer"="http://wsus" "WUStatusServer"="http://wsus" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU] "UseWUServer"=dword:00000001 "RescheduleWaitTimeEnabled"=dword:00000001 "RescheduleWaitTime"=dword:00000001 "DetectionFrequencyEnabled"=dword:00000001 "DetectionFrequency"=dword:00000016 "RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000001 "RebootRelaunchTimeout"=dword:0000000a "RebootWarningTimeoutEnabled"=dword:00000001 "RebootWarningTimeout"=dword:0000000a "NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000000 "AUOptions"=dword:00000004 "ScheduledInstallDay"=dword:00000000 "ScheduledInstallTime"=dword:00000016 You just need to replace "http://wsus" with "http://ip_of_your_wsus_server". You'll have to set up a rule for automatic approval and set a due date (if you the updates to apply for sure). You can also trigger the detection on the client using wuauclt /detectnow.

you might also need to use takeown before icacls.

The best solution to speed up windows updates is to use a wsus server.

If you had errors when running dcdiag /test:dns on the dc and they were not fixed, then using the workaround provided ( setting the client computers with fixed ip) won't solve the problems.

Post the output of the "make" command. Also did you run a ./configure before ?

Just a though, but did you let the usb device connected when the computer was started (when booting/wking up from hibernate) ? If you did, i would try removing the device before hibernate and plugging it back after waking up (some bios force speed of usb device to usb 1).

Glad you got it fixed, i didn't knew the trick about smartscreen.

Evacopy seems to only copy to date/time folder and not being able to append date/time to the file name's. But of course there might be other tools that would do it.

Not sure that an IE tweak, it might be a different certificate use (the external acces might be filtered and thus not connecting directly to the server, most likely using forefront or isa is the webmail is exchange based). I found this, it might you as it is explaining the difference evssl certificate and ssl.

You could try pdf creator. I used both and pdf creator has a lot more features.

If the files were stored on a server os like windows 2003/2008/2008R2, you could have used the shadow copies to make the backups for you every 15min (the interval between two shadow copies might depend a lot on the volume usage). If you really want something in batch (not plainly batch anyway), here is how i would do it: @echo off set pathtools=%~dp0 set time_interval=15 set path_mon=c:\main set backupdir=c:\backup set /A sleep_time=%time_interval%*60 :loop for /f "usebackq" %%i in (`%pathtools%date.exe +%%Y%%m%%d_%%k%%M%%S`) do (set now=%%i) %pathtools%find.exe %path_mon% -type f -cmin -%time_interval% > %pathtools%tmp_files_to_copy.lst for /f "delims=" %%i in (%pathtools%tmp_files_to_copy.lst) do (copy %%i %backupdir%\%%~ni_%now%.%%~xi) %pathtools%sleep.exe %sleep_time% goto loop You'll need the unixtools find.exe, date.exe and sleep.exe stored in the same folder with the batch (you'll need to modify the pathtools value). As for the silent need, i would run this as a service with srvany.exe et instsrv.exe (from the windows 2003 reskit).

You need to check if the driver is correctly referenced in the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\PCI#VEN_8086&DEV_3B2F and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\IaStor for iastor = intel ahci driver ) and installed (you have to know how to read an .inf file and if all files are there). The mounted devices (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices) might also create problem and you might need to remove some (or all values there) and repair you install if you're using vista or windows 7. Or you could use a tool that will do it for you like driverinjection gui (if your os is supported).

Depending on your hardware the drivers might already be there but you might need to change some settings in order to boot properly.

I think it is mostly office updates but could also be related to gdi windows update. Either way it should be easily deployed and not cause problems as long as you're using at least Office 2003 SP3.

Ntbackup might be able to do it (that's its function). If you wish to stay with copy, you could try robocopy (also check with /B switch). Edit Reason: remove the B) that wasn't wanted

As NTFSDOS from Sysinternals require some files from a windows install, you might damage your ntfs partition with it if you use files too old as there are quite a few versions between nt4 versions and most recent one.

As far as i saw, it seems the dotnetinstaller.exe is embed in both installer and might be causing this behavior. I didn't found any way to disable it so perhaps repackaging entirely is the best option (with installrite perhaps).

Just for the record, Mingw allow you to compile binaries without any need of libraries dependencies and most of the time your compiled binaries will work on any win32 OS without the need of any specific dll.

Yes you can replace them but be careful when connecting them some usb cable connectors have strange color code. Here is an example. But you could also rely on something like this.

Sometime not getting an answer isn't being ignored, it might be that those who seen your posts doesn't know the answer (and i'm in this case).

Cygwin is the classical way and will give you almost a complete linux distrib compiled to run under windows but you might prefer mingw (it is my preferred choice) or djgpp but this last one is more Dos oriented.

The missing " : DEL /F /Q /A:H "%UserProfile%\Desktop\desktop.ini"