[Adobe Acrobat 8.0 - information thread]

continues here....

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=87545

[Adobe Acrobat 8.0 - information thread]

i checked it out. works fine.

[Adobe Acrobat 8.0 - information thread]

I'll get a call from technical support on monday concerning the Adobe Licence Manager. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to run Acrobat 8 without Licence Manager located either locally or at Adobe. I hate that sh**

Next Photoshop etc. will also be using ALM...

[Adobe Acrobat 8.0 - information thread]

ok, we'll see

thanks

[Adobe Acrobat 8.0 - information thread]

Hi

Couldn't find IStuner for Acrobat 8. Tried to use v7.

But with IStuner, there ist a ITW-File needed. I can't find it in my source-dir of acrobat 8 (testversion). there is no such file. Only the "abcpy.ini". But I want to create a transform-file to pre-configure the whole thing like Adobe Reader 7.0.

any hints?

many thanks

[XP install takes too long]

i'm using OnCommand CCM (symantec now) to distribute software on over 400 clients and also to setup clients completely with xp. but xp takes 1h longer to install than w2000......

there are 3 stages in the unattend-script from symantec:

1) copying the i386-dir from the distribution-server to the client (including client-specific hw-drivers) and starting the unattend-setup with client-specific answer-file

2) xp-setup is copying files to temporary directory in dos-mode

3) xp-setup is installing xp in gui-mode

stage 2 takes around 30min to complete. that seems not normal to me.

but smartdrv gets loaded by the symantec-script.

the installation of xp directly from CD is finished while hd-install is still at stage 2!

anybody knows how to speed it up?

[Isodraw6 setup.iss doesn't work]

anybody knows how you manipulate setup.iss files?

i created my ISS-file as normal with -R, but everytime I run setup with -S i get resultcode -3 in my log-file.

----> "required data not found in the setup.iss file"

i think there is a setup included for the usb-dongle. that might be the problem 'cause its maybe not installshield-standard (i read about that elsewhere).

any tools or hints to control what setup.iss is doing??

iso6.iss

[removing registry keys using a batch file]

what are regedit4 reg files?  I was more of a hardware guy that got threw into this...that's why some of it doesn't make too much sense to me.  Could you use the code statement that I have posted above to show me the correct syntax. 

Thanks!!

open up your regedit registry-editor, navigate to the appropriate key or string and choose EXPORT. switch file-type to "Win9x/NT4 Regfiles" and click SAVE.

now, you've got a regedit4-file :-)

the first line in these type of reg-files says always "REGEDIT4"

the new w2k-type shows "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00"

don't ask me what is the difference :-))

[shares thru command line?]

hello

anybody knows a tool to set-up shares on a server thru command line??

i'd like to move all the home-shares from one server to another. for security i'd use CACLS but how create the shares?

is there a tool in the reskit?

[removing registry keys using a batch file]

After talking with Symantec's tech support they gave me two registry keys that need deleted.  So what I need to know how to do is to remotely remove registry keys via a batch file.  I'll put what code I think will work.  Please give me some feedback.

easy job:

to import a string:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla]
"CurrentVersion"="1.6"

to delete a string

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla]
"CurrentVersion"=-

to delete a key

REGEDIT4

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Mozilla]

but works only with regedit4-format of reg-files.

to silently use them, type:

regedit /s sample.reg

[Explorer reg settings]

its under the same key:

dont use Webview

WebView=0

show system-files

ShowSuperHidden=1

except icon-list and sort.....

---> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams

but i didn't figure out completely how it works.

under streams, there should also be the settings for "quick launch".

looks like it's one binary-value that contains many of explorer settings. i hate that :-(

[ExtendOEMPartition doesn't work anymore]

**** yes.

it works now with network-install....

[ExtendOEMPartition doesn't work anymore]

hello

few days ago as I startet fiddling around with unattended xp-cds the extendPartition worked. I manually create a 2gig FAT partition and let setup convert it and extend it by 8gig. I also use this at work with OnCommand CCM (sw deployment system).

after extending the winnt.sif and further tweaking and "hotfixing" there is no way getting this right anymore.

I thought it might be gosh's stripping down the source-files, so I made a new ISO from scratch using the original CD.

tried it in vmware and virtualpc. even the real setup on a real pc doesn't convert. as I remember, the conversion takes place (should!) after a reboot in gui-setup (like the filesystemcheck after a crash)

virtual disk is 16gig, the real disk is 60gig, enough space.....

any hints on that?

are there any other parameter "extendOemPartition" depends on??

or is it unsupported by cd-install?? I think I startet playing around with the unattend.txt and winnt.exe over network (not winnt.sif on CD).

    OemPreinstall=Yes

    UnattendSwitch=Yes

    FileSystem="ConvertNTFS"

    ExtendOEMPartition="8000, nowait"

[Hotfixes thru Batch in GuiRunOnce]

I really dont get KB822603 installed. even in normal gui-mode.

but registry tells me installed=1

windows-update-bug??

[Hotfixes thru Batch in GuiRunOnce]

hello

i'm trying to set up my unattended CD with the whole bunch of MS-stuff. but I didn't want to mess around with svcpack.inf 'cause of the dependencies. hotfixes of mediaplayer should be installed after mediaplayer etc.

so I did everything with 2 batch-files in guirunonce. see below:

@echo off

echo Installing.... Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0sp1

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\000_Microsoft\000_ie6\ie6setup.exe /R:N

echo Installing.... Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.0

start /wait msiexec /i %systemdrive%\install\000_Microsoft\005_wmp9\mpsetupedp.msi REBOOT="SUPPRESS"

echo Installing.... Microsoft DirectX 9.0b

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\000_Microsoft\010_directx9\dxsetup.exe /opk

echo Installing.... Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\000_Microsoft\015_mdac28\MDAC_TYP.EXE /Q /c:"setup /qn1"

echo Installing.... Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8 Hotfix Q832483.EXE

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\000_Microsoft\015_mdac28\Q832483.EXE /C:"dahotfix.exe /q /n" /q

echo Installing.... Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2.0

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\000_Microsoft\020_wmm2\mm20deu.exe /q:a /c:"msiexec.exe /i MM20.MSI /qn"

echo Installing.... Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\000_Microsoft\025_dotnet11\dotnetfx.exe /q:a /c:"install /q"

echo Installing.... Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 German Language Pack

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\000_Microsoft\025_dotnet11\langpack.exe /q:a /c:"inst.exe /qb /l"

echo Installing.... Microsoft Windows-Journal-Viewer 1.5

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\000_Microsoft\030_journal15\JVsetup.exe /q:a /c:"msiexec.exe /i MICROS~1.MSI /qn"

pause

first creats with dir-command a numeric ordered list of Q-fixes and KB-fixes. FOR-loop reads the list and installs the fix with corresponding parameter

@echo off

set hotfixpath=%systemdrive%\install\005_Hotfixes

dir /B /On %hotfixpath%\q* > %hotfixpath%\files.txt

for /F "tokens=*" %%i IN (%hotfixpath%\files.txt) DO (

echo Installing.... %%i

start /wait %hotfixpath%\%%i /Q:A /R:N

echo.

)

dir /B /On %hotfixpath%\KB* > %hotfixpath%\files.txt

for /F "tokens=*" %%i IN (%hotfixpath%\files.txt) DO (

echo Installing.... %%i

start /wait %hotfixpath%\%%i /Q /N /Z /O

echo.

)

del %hotfixpath%\files.txt

pause

my problem now is, that some of the hotfixes won't get installed correctly. checking windowsupdate shows me some missing fixes I already got in my batch.

I assume it's because of the suppressed reboots. by starting my batch several times manually while rebooting in between I get the system up to date.

I thought you have to install hotfixes in numeric order, thats why I created the batch with the FOR-loop.

one of the missing fixes is the MDAC-update 832483. but it will be installed right after MDAC 2.8 itself in the first batch.

the others are 826939, 824146, 826942, 822603

any ideas? is there a special order to install the fixes??

here's my list of hotfixes to be installed

KB322011.exe

KB327979.exe

KB810243.exe

KB814995.exe

KB816093.exe

KB817778.exe

KB820291.exe

KB821253.exe

KB822603.exe

KB823182.exe

KB824105.exe

KB824141.exe

KB825119.exe

KB826939.exe

KB826942.exe

KB828026.exe

KB828028.exe

KB828035.exe

KB829558.exe

q327405.exe

q330994.exe

q814078.exe

q816093.exe

q832894.exe