Archive for September, 2007

Slipstream Office SP3 into Office 2003 SBE

Go to the root of the Office CD in a command window and run:
setup.exe /a

This will perform an admin install of Office. Enter in your CD key and because we want to use this to install over GPO we will use a full network path instead (\\melbourne\office-install) of x:\office-install.

It will appear to ‘install’ but it will just copy files over.

Next grab the network install of Office SP3 and extract it to a folder. x:\office-sp3 in this instance. Winrar or Winzip will do this.

Now we just need to apply SP3 to the install files.

In a command prompt once again we run this command to update Office:

msiexec /p x:\office-sp3\MAINSP3.msp /a “\\melbourne\office-install\STDP11.MSI” SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb

and this command after to update the web components:

msiexec /p x:\office-sp3\OWC11SP3.msp /a “\\melbourne\office-install\OWC11.MSI” SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb

Note: leave out the /qb switch to see the progress if you wish.

All done.

Batch script to extract updates from WSUS content folder

This script by Alexander Suhovey will extract/copy particular updates from WSUS content folder. WSUS stores updates in \WSUSContent folder using SHA1 hash for file names and this script will attempt to decrypt SHA1 hash for file names by querying  WSUS SQL/MSDE database and then exports those updates as well.

Command line switches to run the script

SYNTAX:   WSUSExtract.cmd <-f:search_string> [-l:lang] [-t:target]

  1. -f:search_string   - Part of update KB to search for.
  2. -l:lang      - Update language. If omitted, all languages will be processed.
  3. -t:target  - Target folder to copy updates to. If omitted, script assumes ‘View Only’ mode.

Examples

The command below will Copy downloaded English updates corresponding 896358 KB article to ‘c:\temp’ folder

WSUSExtract.cmd -f:896358 -l:enu -t:c:\temp

http://msmvps.com/blogs/athif/archive/2006/05/09/94107.aspx

Vista: Disable the System Beep

First, go to your desktop and right click on the My Computer icon. From the drop-down menu select Manage.

My Computer

Continue reading ‘Vista: Disable the System Beep’

Vista: How to disable Windows Defender

Launch Windows Defender and go to Tools -> Options.

Windows Defender

Here you will find a lot of configuration options. Scroll down to the end of the list. You will find there a section called Administrator options. Deselect the Use Windows Defender box and press the Save button.

Windows Defender

Now you will receive a notification saying that “Windows Defender is turned off”. Click on Close and you are done.

Windows Defender

Vista: Disable UAC (User Account Control)

1. Click on the Start Button and go to the Control Panel.

2. In the Control Panel search box, search for “disable uac“.

3. Click on Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off.

4. Uncheck Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer.

5. Click OK.

SP2 RIS to WDS conversion gives PXE-T01: File not found errors

To return to Legacy mode, run WDSUTIL /Uninitialize-server at a command prompt.