I haven’t used Orca to edit MSI files since I found Camwood appEditor around November last year. Since then though, appEditor has become has become InstEd and it’s even better than its’ predecessor.
This is a great way to edit MSI files and create transforms, being able to see the MSI with the Components and [...]
There are numerous ways to customise the default user profile in earlier versions of Windows, including:
Create a user account, configure the profile, then copy over the top of the local default profile or save a copy to your NETLOGON share;
Use the [GuiRunOnce] section in an unattended answer file for Windows XP/2003.
The first option carries over [...]
An update to the documentation included in the Windows Automated Installation Kit are available:
Windows AIK User’s Guide and Unattended Setup Reference (Documentation Update 1)
This documentation update includes revised content that addresses known help issues, workarounds, and other changes. These files replace the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) .chm files.
Download the ZIP file and extract to %ProgramFiles%\Windows AIK\Docs\CHMs to [...]
Ok, two separate issues but here, but fixed the same way. First up is Windows Update reporting:
Windows could not search for new updates
Error(s) found: Code 80092026
Then un-related to Windows Update, a code-signing certificate issued from an internal certificate authority, reporting:
The cryptographic operation failed due to a local security option setting
Both issues fixed by deleting the [...]
