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Erwin posted:VMware Tools is pulled from the host when you install/upgrade through vSphere, so the host will feed it whatever version is needed. Are you trying to push out the installer in some other way? Yeah, I'm trying to install it as part of the MDT Task Sequence. That is really good to know about the newest Tools, thanks.
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quackquackquack posted:Yeah, I'm trying to install it as part of the MDT Task Sequence. I've never used MDT and actually I jumped to the conclusion that you were testing mobile data terminal deployments, which is why I was confused. If it's just testing, getting your VMware guys to enable this setting could make your life a whole lot easier:  That way you can leave VMware Tools out of your deployment tasks. I'm not sure how that behaves if the VM is just coming up for the first time and still has to pull stuff from MDT, but it's worth playing with.
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Apr 26, 2012 16:48
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Erwin posted:I've never used MDT and actually I jumped to the conclusion that you were testing mobile data terminal deployments, which is why I was confused. If that's using VUM, it won't be able to install Tools, only upgrade.
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Apr 26, 2012 16:56
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Erwin posted:I've never used MDT and actually I jumped to the conclusion that you were testing mobile data terminal deployments, which is why I was confused. One big problem we've been having is that keyboard and mouse don't work when booted into Win7 during/after deployment (4.1), or that the VM experiences 4-5 second freezes of the keyboard and mouse during/after deployment (5.0). Installing the Tools resolves these issues. Additionally, we're a very decentralized organization, and the people I am dealing with who will be testing these MDT deployments are not the people running their vSphere environments, and I don't want to be trying to find those people to convince them to make changes to their stuff.
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Apr 26, 2012 17:25
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Do the VMware drivers have an inf file? If yes, you can inject it into your WIM with DISM and have it available from the first boot.
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Apr 26, 2012 19:10
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The mass storage drivers can be found, but none of the others. Although they can be grabbed from a computer after having been installed, that's an annoying process. Installing the Tools works great, really. I just wasn't aware that newer tools would be compatible with a VM on an older version of vSphere.
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Apr 26, 2012 21:03
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Are any of you folks running any kind of print audit/management software like Papercut? What bits do you use and do your users hate you for making them confirm they want to print something that's going to cost $12?
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Apr 28, 2012 20:14
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Bitch Stewie posted:Are any of you folks running any kind of print audit/management software like Papercut? We use Papercut, but we don't do anything like that. We give everybody a "$60" quota and for the semester prints "cost" 6 cents a page (12 for color) and they can check their quota from the desktop any time.
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Apr 28, 2012 21:37
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How well does it work? I was being a bit flippant with the comment about cost as we don't charge or anything, but we do want to explore ways of highlighting that "hey, this costs money" as well as having half decent human readable and searchable records of print jobs. I installed threir print monitor earlier so we have some good data to go on over the next few months.
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Apr 28, 2012 23:10
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Has anybody had any experience with Dell's Kace? My boss booked me a meeting with a Dell representative about Kace and i've been reading about it on the Kace website. We have a fully working SCCM 2007 and i'm not really thrilled about introducing a another solution for managing and deploying computers. I'd just rather update to SCCM 2012.
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Apr 29, 2012 09:14
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Bitch Stewie posted:How well does it work? We use it for student labs, so once they use up their quota they're SOL, but Papercut doesn't get in the way when they try and print something big. The students start out with a mindset of "this is my money to spend" which sounds like not the viewpoint you're coming from. I don't work with it very much but from my understanding it works really well. We've put a shortcut on the desktop to check their balanc, which I think is just a link to a webpage, but the students seem to be figuring it out, (and making complaints when their $20 print jobs don't actually print)
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Apr 30, 2012 07:17
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FISHMANPET posted:We use it for student labs, so once they use up their quota they're SOL, but Papercut doesn't get in the way when they try and print something big. The students start out with a mindset of "this is my money to spend" which sounds like not the viewpoint you're coming from. "Oops I accidentally printed this textbook out in color and used up my entire quota. Can you refund my pages and let me keep the book I printed?"
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Apr 30, 2012 07:43
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InfiniteDonkey posted:Has anybody had any experience with Dell's Kace? I played around with the VM for evaluation and it's pretty decent in a "not quite as good as SCCM for much cheaper" kind of way.
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Apr 30, 2012 09:44
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InfiniteDonkey posted:Has anybody had any experience with Dell's Kace? We use the 1000 appliance here. It's good, does it's job, and I've had great luck with everything I've thrown at it. The community forums + paid support are good as well. However, we started with nothing. If you've got SCCM already, I can't see how you'd not be wasting time/money to transition.
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Apr 30, 2012 13:53
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In Microsoft SCM (Security Compliance Manager), looking at the built-in Win7SP1 Baseline from Microsoft, and the 'Default' column appears to be, well, wrong. I made a vanilla Win7SP1 VM, installed from the ISO direct from MSDN. SCM says "Require a Password When a Computer Wakes (Plugged In)" is default 'Disabled'. But when I check on my VM, it is definitely enabled by default. Any ideas?
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Apr 30, 2012 17:04
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InfiniteDonkey posted:Has anybody had any experience with Dell's Kace? I do. The question is "What do you need Dell Kace Kbox to do?". If you just want inventory management, Spiceworks. If you want an helpdesk... I'd say spiceworks. You're going to hate your helpdesk software, it might as well be free. If you want patch management, stick with SCCM since you've already got it going. Kbox is a nifty little appliance, but it doesn't really do anything that you can't do for free or cheap; it just provides a single place to go to for all that stuff.
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P.S. STILL COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT
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Bitch Stewie posted:Are any of you folks running any kind of print audit/management software like Papercut? FWIW - We're a pretty small org. Papercut is a really solid product and their support when I've needed it has been good. We dont use it to charge users, we've got it hooked up to release stations so people have to swipe their cards to get their printing. Its the only printing-related thing I have any confidence in whatsoever.
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We've just rolled out a bunch of Windows XP PCs to users who were using thin clients/Citrix before, and have identified a couple of issues. I've hit a bit of a dead end in trying to find optimal solutions so if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it. 1) These PCs are shared by multiple users and are also used for staff to swipe on/off at either end of their shifts. They're supposed to always be left on, but around 20% of users keep selecting "Shut down" from the Start menu instead of "Log off". Most of these Is there any way to remove the shut down button via machine group policy (not user group policy) or registry hacks? I've found this registry hack but that leaves the button in the start menu and causes it to spit up an error instead. 2) Is there any way to show the system time onscreen when no user is logged in?
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May 3, 2012 11:06
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Thank everybody for the answers considering Dell's Kace. Kace really doesn't seem to be able to offer us anything, it actually would restrict us compared to what we can do now. We have an EA license with Microsoft, so i have the latest versions of pretty much everything available to me. I'll focus my time on upgrading SCCM 2007 to 2012 in the summer.
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May 3, 2012 12:27
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jassa posted:We've just rolled out a bunch of Windows XP PCs to users who were using thin clients/Citrix before, and have identified a couple of issues. I've hit a bit of a dead end in trying to find optimal solutions so if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it. Use loopback processing. Loopback processing makes it so you can apply user settings via GPOs in the machine's OU, and every user logging into that machine will get those settings either in addition to, or instead of their usual settings, depending on the loopback mode (merge vs replace).
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May 3, 2012 17:12
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GMontag posted:Use loopback processing. Loopback processing makes it so you can apply user settings via GPOs in the machine's OU, and every user logging into that machine will get those settings either in addition to, or instead of their usual settings, depending on the loopback mode (merge vs replace). That looks very promising - I'll try it out at work tomorrow. Thanks. 
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May 3, 2012 17:40
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jassa posted:Shutdown problem I've had a lot of success by putting a piece of tape over the power button that says "do not turn me off." It doesn't look great but people have gotten the message.
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May 3, 2012 18:46
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What do you all use for centralised event log management please? Ideally something that could route events to folders so that, for example, the VSS error/warning that I get every time VMware quiesces certain VM's isn't flagged to me, but other warning/critical events are?
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Hiyoshi posted:I've had a lot of success by putting a piece of tape over the power button that says "do not turn me off." It doesn't look great but people have gotten the message. That doesn't stop them from clicking "Shut down" from the Start menu though. Our sysadmins were dragging their feet about using loopback processing so we ended up using a registry hack instead. Now we have a different issue - for reasons I won't bore people with, we need to get these 100 PCs to keep the IP address they currently have. Ideally we'd reserve the IP by MAC address except that would involve configuring 80 or so different routers for the various sites. I've found a way to configure the TCP/IP settings via the registry but we'd have to specify the settings for each PC, which means doing them one at a time. I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to scripting, but would it be feasible/possible to create a script which grabs the TCP/IP settings for the current PC and then bases the static IP settings off that (by making those registry changes)?
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spidoman posted:"Oops I accidentally printed this textbook out in color and used up my entire quota. Can you refund my pages and let me keep the book I printed?" "
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May 9, 2012 12:22
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jassa posted:That doesn't stop them from clicking "Shut down" from the Start menu though. What do you mean it would take configuring 80 routers? I'm not sure what your environment is like, but setting up a DHCP Reservation by MAC is pretty trivial and just has to be done on the DHCP server. No need to touch the routers, unless they're doing the DHCP  If you're insistent on scripting, you can use netsh to set tcp/ip information in a script.
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I came across this "feature" today: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2009754 So I'd like to integrate updates into my Win 7 WIM and deploy that WIM with SCCM, but before I go off looking for a guide to do it, I was wondering if anyone here has an recommendations.
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May 9, 2012 16:11
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Look back a few pages, I believe someone had good advice for dealing with it.
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Bitch Stewie posted:What do you all use for centralised event log management please? Anyone? I'd like to know about this too, plus one that supports *nix syslog.
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skipdogg posted:What do you mean it would take configuring 80 routers? I'm not sure what your environment is like, but setting up a DHCP Reservation by MAC is pretty trivial and just has to be done on the DHCP server. No need to touch the routers, unless they're doing the DHCP The organisation I work for helps the mentally and physically handicapped. Some of our clients live in share houses with live-in carers. Each site has its own ADSL router which takes care of DHCP for any devices on its subnet. I'm not sure exactly why it's done that way, but it's not exactly something I'm in a position to change. I'll check out netsh and see where that gets me. Thanks.
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FISHMANPET posted:I came across this "feature" today: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2009754 Finding a solid guide was the hard part... and I can't find the drat guide I used. It's pretty straightforward though. Get all your patches you want to install to the WIM, use DISM to mount the wim file. fake edit: I still have the command prompt windows open from when I did this.. I'll paste some stuff in here. I won't insult your intelligence by baby explaining everything, but ask for clarification if you need it. Step 1: Mount your wim file using DISM. The command below is what I used. C:\>dism /mount-wim /wimfile  \Win7Source\Win7Entx64.wim /mountdir\Win7_WIM/index:1 Step 2: add-packages from the folder containing all your packages. If you just select a folder it will pull all the packages in the folder. I used C:\Win7_update_packages>dism /image:"C:\Win7_WIM" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"C:\ Win7_update_packages" You'll see a bunch of these Processing 54 of 66 - Adding package Package_for_KB2644615~31bf3856ad364e35~amd6 4~~6.1.1.0 [==========================100.0%==========================] Then commit the changes to the mounted WIM C:\Win7_update_packages>dism /unmount-wim /mountdir \Win7_WIM /commitThen import the new WIM file into WDS or SCCM or whatever you're using.
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If I'm starting from scratch, I can just use install.wim off of an install disk, right?
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FISHMANPET posted:If I'm starting from scratch, I can just use install.wim off of an install disk, right? Correct
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Right. I had just renamed some stuff to make it easier to organize. edit: the hardest part was getting all the patches. I ended up using wsusoffline and that worked pretty well.
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Motherfuck, it looks like I can't add SP1 to an offline Win 7 image. Why in the gently caress would they do that to me. E: What the gently caress, apparently a work around is to just tell it "No, really, you can install this, trust me" http://superuser.com/questions/249275/slipstream-windows-7-service-pack-1 What the gently caress Microsoft. FISHMANPET fucked around with this message at 18:30 on May 9, 2012 |
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Can you just grab the Win7 install.wim with SP1 already in it? That's what I did.
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skipdogg posted:Can you just grab the Win7 install.wim with SP1 already in it? That's what I did. I'm not actually sure. The image we use has KMS baked in (though I think all that does is change the EULA). I have a base SP1 disk, but I don't think those will have the same KMS stuff. So I don't know if the KMS bits are stored in the install.wim or not. I guess I can compare the install.wim in my disk to to an RTM disk, and see what that yields me.
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FISHMANPET posted:If I'm starting from scratch, I can just use install.wim off of an install disk, right? Do you mean putting a Win7 DVD in the drive (or mounting the ISO) and grabbing the install.wim out of it? If so, MS says not to do it, at least back in Vista. If you slot that install.wim into SCCM, the OS drive ends up as D. Here's a relevant post: http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m229612-print.aspx
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quackquackquack posted:Do you mean putting a Win7 DVD in the drive (or mounting the ISO) and grabbing the install.wim out of it? According to a comment farther down, they fixed that in 7. I guess that's something I'll have to test. I'd really prefer not to capture an online image because that just seems... unclean.
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I don't know how you're doing it, but there's install.wim on the Windows 7 iso, in the sources folder. Use WAIK to make a proper unattend.xml and you're good.
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