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I’ve been mucking around with MDT 2010 lately, which has made it pretty simple to create an unattended install routine for my Dell Latitude XT2 (hopefully more on that soon) and to inject drivers into the build; however in doing so I’ve found a nasty bug in the IDT 92HDxxx HD Audio drivers from Dell (version 6.10.0.6217, A09).
This particular [...]
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Group Policy allows you to disable certain UI elements within Office applications, which you might want to do in the case of the Information Rights Management feature built into Office 2003 and 2007.
I’m picking on IRM in this post about disabling UI elements, but you can disable all of the IRM features in Office by [...]
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Adobe have made the Adobe Customisation Wizard 9 available for download for use with deploying Acrobat and Reader 9 applications.
Good news is that this allows you to disable the Adobe Product Improvement Program window that some people have been having trouble disabling. I’m now in the process of updating my post on deploying Adobe [...]
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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 [...]
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The latest version of Adobe Reader is available, so here’s a few preliminary details on what you might need to know when deploying it. It seems like only yesterday we were pulling our collective hair out over Adobe Reader 8 and now Adobe Reader 9 has been released and we’ve got to start over [...]
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I’ve updated my Sun Java Runtime Environment 1.6 Update X script, again. Updating this script seems to be a never ending task, usually because I find mistakes but this time around I’ve made a couple of changes including Windows x64 support. The script will now supports installing the 32-bit version of the JRE on x86 [...]
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Sun are preparing a new Java Runtime Environment for release later this year and there’s a couple of changes to this version that have some bearing on deployment. I can’t imagine there is an enterprise out there that doesn’t have to deal with Java applications.
The biggest change is that from this new version onwards, [...]
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