Archive - May 2012
 
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Disable XSS Filter Setting in IE9 - All Users
Create Bootable Thumb Drive from WIM
Change Computer Name to Service Tag
Deploy Google Bookmarks Win7/WinXP
Uninstall IE9
Return SID Windows 7
Configure BIOS Settings for MDT
Disable Hibernate - Enforce Always On
Retrieve Office 2007 Key
Retrieve Office 2010 Key
Retrieve Windows Keys
Robocopy Profiles When USMT Fails
 

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Δ Thursday, May 31st, 2012
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Δ Disable XSS Filter Setting in IE9 - All Users

How to disable a setting in IE9

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Uses WMI to return SID, and the SID gets added to a command string that applies the disabled
setting to each user registry hive.



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Δ Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
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Δ Create Bootable Thumb Drive from WIM

How to create a bootable drive

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Uses diskpart.exe and xcopy.exe to create a bootable thumb/usb drive.



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Δ Thursday, May 24th, 2012
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Δ Change Computer Name to Service Tag

How to change computer name to service tag

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Use WMI to retrieve the serial and objComputer.Rename to rename the computer.



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Δ Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
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Δ Deploy Google Bookmarks Win7/WinXP

How to deploy Google bookmarks

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So this was my problem:  I was tasked with deploying Google bookmarks to the enterprise.  After much research, I found out that GP was good for many things - except bookmarks.  I created this to cycle through the machines profiles, copying a bookmark file containing all the specified bookmarks.  Worked like a charm.



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Δ Monday, May 21st, 2012
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Δ Uninstall IE9

How to uninstall IE9

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Uses the pkgmgr.exe to uninstall IE9.  This assumes that there was an upgrade done from IE8 to IE9.



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Δ Monday, May 14th, 2012
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Δ Return SID Windows 7

How to return SID

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Uses the WMI to return the SID.  Very useful to accomplish many tasks where you need to
access all or specific user profiles.



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Δ Friday, May 11th, 2012
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Δ Configure BIOS Settings for MDT

How to configure the BIOS settings

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This will do the following to the MDT/SCCM generated WIM files: ' inject the Dell CCTK, inject the
HAPI drivers, and modify the ' unattend.xml file.  Uses the dism.exe command.



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Δ Thursday, May 10th, 2012
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Δ Disable Hibernate - Enforce Always On

How to maximize the power config

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Uses the power management powercfg.exe to maximize power settings.



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Δ Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
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Δ Retrieve Office 2007 Key

How to retrieve office keys

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Decodes the Microsoft key from the registry.



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Δ Monday, May 7th, 2012
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Δ Retrieve Office 2010 Key

How to retrieve Office keys

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Decodes the Microsoft key from the registry.



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Δ Friday, May 4th, 2012
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Δ Retrieve Windows Keys

How to retrieve Windows keys

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Decodes the Microsoft key from the registry.



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Δ Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
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Δ Robocopy Profiles When USMT Fails

How to copy profiles when usmt fails

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This script will robocopy a profile from one machine to another. ' It is intended to be used when the USMT
fails. The user must ' logon to the new machine before running this script. If this is ' executed before a
profile is created, a new profile will be ' created <profile>.xxx and the user will not see any of the ' copied
data. ' There needs to be a %NetworkPath%\PSTools directory containing ' PSTools. Robocopy needs to be
present in the PSTools directory. ' PSTools allows for the robocopy to run locally on the old ' machine,
thereby conserving bandwidth if it is at a remote ' location.



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