SOE Team Stuff

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Enable the Screen Saver Tab in Display Properties

Group policy can be used to hide the Screen Saver tab in Windows XP Professional. If you have access to the Windows Registry you can override this policy setting by changing the following registry value:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\NoDispScrSavPage

REG_DWORD = 1

change to:

REG_DWORD = 0

Monday, January 26, 2009

WDS: LiteTouch freezes on HP d530

Issue: hp compaq d530 sff freezes during "Installing Operating System" phase of LiteTouch deployment.

Resolution: Remove duplicate "Broadcom NetExtreme Gigabit Adapter" NIC Driver from Microsoft Deployment workbench. Versions 10.82.x.x and 10.78.x.x existed. Removed 10.78.x.x recompiled LiteTouch_winpe.wim.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

How to: Configure SQL Server to accept remote connections

914277 How to configure SQL Server 2005 to allow remote connections

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;914277

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Altiris Deployment Solution for HP ThinClients

Tip: To import the MS-DOS boot files to create an automation partition, point the wizard to a Windows 98 CD. It seems to find the files it needs without issue. Pointing the wizard to MS-DOS 6.22 setup files or a 6.22 boot disk doesn't seem to work.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Windows 7 Beta 32-bit Product Key

4HJRK-X6Q28-HWRFY-WDYHJ-K8HDH
GG4MQ-MGK72-HVXFW-KHCRF-KW6KY
QXV7B-K78W2-QGPR6-9FWH9-KGMM7
TQ32R-WFBDM-GFHD2-QGVMH-3P9GC
6JKV2-QPB8H-RQ893-FW7TM-PBJ73

Monday, January 5, 2009

How Can I Run a Script Under Alternate Credentials?

Note: A script CANNOT provide domain credentials if you are logged in as a local account on the workstation. To use alternate domain credentials you must be logged in using domain user account.

URL: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/dec04/hey1213.mspx

For WMI...

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Const WbemAuthenticationLevelPktPrivacy = 6

strComputer = "atl-ws-01"
strNamespace = “root\cimv2”
strUser = "Administrator"
strPassword = "4rTGh2#1"

Set objWbemLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objWMIService = objwbemLocator.ConnectServer _
 (strComputer, strNamespace, strUser, strPassword)
objWMIService.Security_.authenticationLevel = WbemAuthenticationLevelPktPrivacy

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
 ("Select * From Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objItem in ColItems
 Wscript.Echo strComputer & ": " & objItem.Caption

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OR

For ADSI

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Const ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION = 1
Const ADS_USE_ENCRYPTION = 2

strPath = "LDAP://cn=kenmyer,ou=Finance,dc=fabrikam,dc=com"
strUser = "fabrikam\Administrator"
strPassword = "4rTGh2#1"

Set objDSO = GetObject("LDAP:")
Set objUser = objDSO.OpenDSObject _
 (strPath, strUser, strPassword, _
     ADS_USE_ENCRYPTION OR ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION)

Wscript.Echo objUser.AccountDisabled

Next
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Sunday, January 4, 2009

How To Determine if a Computer is a Laptop or a Desktop Machine or Docking Station or ..?

Vbscript courtesy of:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15533.html
By Greg DeBrun

---------- START SCRIPT -------------
Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
strComputer = "."

Set objReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _
strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")

strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\DOC's Computer Type"
objReg.CreateKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colChassis = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure")
For Each objChassis in colChassis
For Each strChassisType in objChassis.ChassisTypes
Select Case strChassisType
Case 1
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Other"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 2
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Unknown"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 3
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Desktop"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 4
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Low Profile Desktop"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 5
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Pizza Box"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 6
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Mini Tower"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 7
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Tower"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 8
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Portable"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 9
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Laptop"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 10
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Notebook"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 11
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Handheld"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 12
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 14
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Sub-Notebook"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 15
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Space Saving"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 16
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Lunch Box"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 17
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Main System Chassis"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 18
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Expansion Chassis"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 19
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Sub-Chassis"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 20
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Bus Expansion Chassis"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 21
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Peripheral Chassis"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 22
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Storage Chassis"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 23
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Rack Mount Chassis"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case 24
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Sealed-Case PC"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
Case Else
strEntryName = "PCTYPE"
strValue = "Unknown"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strValue
End Select
Next
Next
---------- END SCRIPT -------------