Category Archives: Microsoft

Windows Vista

Open an Elevated Command Prompt in Six Keystrokes

User Account Control is, an important part of the security protection that Windows Vista offers.

For any user with administrative credentials, you can always execute a process with full admin rights by right-clicking on the executable or shortcut and choosing “Run as Administrator”.

For myself, I regularly want to open an admin-level command prompt, and it’s a distraction to have to move my hands off the keyboard to go through the elevation contortions. So I was delighted to find a little keyboard shortcut for launching an elevated process. Simply press Ctrl+Shift+Enter from the search bar on the start menu with a selected application, and that triggers elevation.

For example, to launch an elevated command prompt, simply press the Win key; type cmd; press Ctrl+Shift+Enter; and then hit Alt+C to confirm the elevation prompt.

Six keystrokes to an elevated command prompt!

(Once I’ve got an elevated command prompt, I always like to execute color 4f as my first input so that this console window is visually differentiated from other non-elevated windows.)

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Microsoft

Wimscript.ini

Wimscript.ini

Wimscript.ini (you can copy and paste into Notepad and save the file as wimscript.ini)
Copy wimscript.ini into the same folder as Imagex in your WinPE image.

[ExclusionList]
ntfs.log
hiberfil.sys
pagefile.sys
"System Volume Information"
RECYCLER
Windows\CSC
[CompressionExclusionList]
*.mp3
*.zip
*.cab
\WINDOWS\inf\*.pnf
 
Microsoft

ImageX

ImageX is a command-line tool that works with the latest Microsoft Windows image (.wim) files.

The .wim files contain one or more volume images for a Windows operating system, while a volume image represents the captured volume or partition of a Windows operating system. The primary purpose of ImageX is to capture, to modify, and to apply images for deployment in a manufacturing or corporate IT environment.

You typically use ImageX with the Windows Imaging File System Filter (WIM FS Filter) driver. The WIM FS Filter driver enables you to mount an image to a directory, where you can browse, copy, paste, and edit the files from a file-management tool, such as Windows Explorer, without extracting or recreating the image. ImageX is commonly used in a Windows PE environment during image-based deployments.

ImageX Technical Reference

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Windows Vista

Ficheiro SetupComplete.cmd (exemplo)

SetupComplete.cmd

@echo off
cd\
start /wait regedit.exe /s c:\windows\setup\vistaregsettings.reg
exit

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Windows Vista

Windows Vista Tips

Source link: http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/winvistafaq.htm

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Windows Vista

Windows Vista Deployment Step by Step Guide

link: http://technet2.microsoft.com/

This document provides instructions for implementing a basic image-based deployment of Microsoft® Windows Vista™ operating system. We recommend that you first use the steps provided in this guide in a test lab environment as a means to become familiar with new and updated deployment features and technologies available in Windows Vista.

Step-by-step guides are not necessarily meant to be used to deploy Windows Vista operating system features without accompanying documentation (as listed in the Additional Resources section) and should be used with discretion as stand-alone documents.

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Windows Vista

10 Things You Need to Know about Deploying Windows Vista

by Michael Niehaus 
  1. New desktop deployment methods
  2. Changes in Windows setup
  3. Tools to help you get started

You’ve deployed Windows XP in the past, and now you’re thinking ahead to Windows Vista. Whether you’ll be deploying to 10, 100, or 100,000 computers, just knowing how the process has changed from Windows XP will make the deployment run much more smoothly.

So here are 10 deployment differences between Windows® XP and Windows Vistaâ„¢ that you’ll be glad you discovered when it’s time to make the move.

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Microsoft Networking

Microsoft Platform Reporting

O utilitário Microsoft Platform Support Reporting é uma ferramenta especializada que foi projetada para coletar informações com base nos requisitos do vários grupos especiais que suporte Premier e Professional clientes. O objetivo do utilitário Microsoft Platform Support Reporting é para ajudar a obter mais informações sobre um cliente do sistema configuração usando um utilitário pequenas e Easy to use Microsoft profissionais de suporte.

Quando você usar esse utilitário corretamente, os relatórios que são gerados podem fornecer uma exibição geral boa de sua configuração sistema incluindo programas e drivers dispositivo que são instalados, a configuração disco, variáveis, ambiente, vários informações rede, e obter mais informações configuração. Além disso, você pode usar esses relatórios para isolar problemas conhecidos ou para solucionar problemas problemas mais difíceis.

Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816819/pt-br

Microsoft Networking Utils

MSI Deployment via Active Directory

Active Directory contains a very useful feature which allows for Administrators to automatically deploy software to machines or users automatically when the machine is booted or a user logs on. This document assumes you will be deploying software to a set of machines in which the user does not have local admin rights, so it will focus on the process to deploy to the computers via the Computer Configuration GPO setting.

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Microsoft Utils

MSI e Windows Installer

Para fazer uma instalação silenciosa de um .msi pode usar a sintaxe:Â

msiexec /i filename /q

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