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How to install System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection on a standalone client

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:48:33 +0000

Suppose you have a need to deploy System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection to a number of clients that later run in standalone mode, meaning that they are not joined to a domain, can’t be managed by SCCM and operate in a network that is not connected to your corporate network.

The installation source scepinstall.exe for the System Center Endpoint Protection agent is stored within the SCCM 2012 client installation folder on the SCCM 2012 SP1 server under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\Client. Within that same directory we also find the endpoint protection default policy settings stored as ep_defaultpolicy.xml, but we won’t use this , as we are going to prepare our own policy that meets our requirements for a standalone unmanaged client.

Script for finding Executables that are command-line programs

Wed, 02 May 2012 22:11:57 +0000

I recently came across a FREE utility called IsCommandLineApp from Helge Klein, a little command-line tool that can be used to determine whether a specific executable is a command-line program. To run this against multiple executables manually is a kind of a pain, so I decided to write a PowerShell script that runs IsCommandLineapp against a defined Folder and all it’s subfolders.

To run the script, first download the IsCommandLineApp from here) and then edit the variable $IsCommandLineApp so that it points to the location where you have stored the tool. If you want to search through another folder than C:\Windows change the variable $StartPath

Copying command-line tools from Windows into WinPE, don’t forget the localization files

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:43:07 +0000

To keep the footprint of WinPE as small as possible many services or tools usually found within a full Windows installation are not available within WinPE. So if you need a command-line tool from Windows such as icacls.exe you just copy the executable into your WinPE sources and you’re done.

But hey, when booting into WinPE and executing icacls.exe, nothing is displayed, the command itself however works.

Unfortunately just copying the the executable alone isn’t enough since it is language neutral, you must also copy the corresponding localization file. These can be found under C;\Windows\System32<locale> so for English C;\Windows\System32\en-US. For icacls.exe we would copy the file ICacls.exe.mui into the WinPE’s \Windows\System32\en-US folder.

ToolTip: Boxcutter – A Command line screenshot utility

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:57:10 +0000

Boxcutter is a simple command line-driven screenshot program for Microsoft Windows. Below you find a short script I wrote that will take a screenshot of the full screen every 20 seconds until 100 screenshots are saved.

One usage scenario (I plan to use) is where you are running an OS installation within a Virtual Machine and want to take screenshots of the various stages of the installation without having to manually take a screenshot. You would just let the script run, it will probably produce more screenshots as needed, but these then can be deleted manually afterwards.

Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:33:24 +0000

…….That’s the message i got yesterday when I wanted to start Outlook 2007. I solved the problem after having found the solution on MSOutlook.info Running the following command fixed the issue.

outlook.exe /resetnavpane

A complete reference of all the Microsoft Outlook 2007 command-line switches can be found here