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In my current environment, I'm using active setup run scripts that create user specific registry settings and copy/create files. This has been working fine under xp, but with Windows 7, I'm constantly getting UAC prompts. I need suggestions on either a better way to do something for users as they logon to a machine or to get past the UAC prompts. Thank you

I have about 1000 machines with Office 2003 (mostly SP3) that I need to add .net Programmabilty Support too. I've tried running setup with a transform to install the components but haven't gotten it to work. Any suggestions?

I was running into the same issue with Dell hardware myself. You might also want to install this hotfix as well: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910678.

You need to unpack the updates. There are a few ways to do this. Run it from a command line with a /extract option or unzip it with something like winzip/7zip. I prefer the later method, especially with a lot of files. You should get a .msp, a bunch of text files and maybe a few other things depending on the patch. the .msp's are what you care about. Put them in the updates folder and everything will work.

I have a prf file that is not completely running when outlook starts for the first time. It generates the mailbox name and gets the correct mail server, but the PST file is not created. If I manually run the prf at anytime, the PST works. Or if I kill the first run keys and readd the importPRF key in the registry and run outlook a second time, it works then. It is the same prf that we've used for a while with no changes. I thought about doing an activesetup/runonce to import prf, but not everyone that logs onto a computer needs to have outlook configured. Any suggestions? custom.PRF.txt

I have an image working for several models of laptop and desktop. When loading on one model (using ghost) of laptop the reboot after entering time/date comes to a black screen. There is no HD or network activity and no difference if I boot in safe mode. If I load a snapshot of the image prior to running sysprep it will run just fine but when I rerun sysprep, I have the same issue. This is an older model of laptop and has other images that work on it. I am using the same sysprep.ini from the previous images. Does anyone have suggestions on what I can do for trouble shooting?

We have a word document that will be e-mailed out with a link to a ppt file on a sharepoint site. Currently it is opening in presentation mode, but they want it to open in edit mode. I've verified that the file is indeed .ppt not .pps. Does anyone have an idea?