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Scripting HP Wireless Device State

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:20:45 +0000

An old colleague called me up this week (well in fact it was my old boss who has left our company), and told me about an issue they had when deploying an ISP specific Software Package that interacts with the Wireless Devices on their HP notebooks.

The problem was that if the WWAN device has been turned of via the quick launch button by the end user, the software would not install.

Scripting Windows Explorer Details View

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:30:19 +0000

Those of you who are familiar with desktop engineering know the pain of scripting Windows configuration settings. While in general many settings can be configured by adding or changing a specific registry key value, there are still many things within the OS where Microsoft did not make our life as easy and provides a single registry key that can be tweaked.

Yesterday I worked on setting the Windows XP Windows Explorer View to “Details” by default for all users. The typical approach in identifying registry changes is to create a snapshot before and after manally applying the system configuration change, then in most cases the necessary registry keys are found and can be scripted. But unfortunately that wasn’t the case when changing the Windows Explorer View to Details.

Creating GPO reports

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:00:05 +0000

Usually when you need a report for a given Group Policy object, you would launch the Group Policy Management Console, select the GPO and then select the settings tab that produces the report.

But what if you need a report for multiple or even all your GPOs you have within your Active Directory ? Going through each GPO and produce the report manually is going to take ages and is boring.

Scripting Registry permissions

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:30:28 +0000

Today some e-mails where exchanged on how to best script registry permissions.

Depending on what you want to achieve here’s a couple of tools that can be of help.

SetACL.exe

http://www.helge.mynetcologne.de/setacl/index.htm http://setacl.sourceforge.net/

SubinACL.exe

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E8BA3E56-D8FE-4A91-93CF-ED6985E3927B&displaylang=en

Regini.exe

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237607