Mick's IT Blogs: May 2012

Cannot Install .NET Framework 4 Updates and Security Updates

Mick Pletcher • Wednesday, May 30, 2012 • code 66a, windows 7, windows update, WindowsUpdate_0000066A, WindowsUpdate_dt000

If you are seeing a backlog of security packs and updates pertaining to .NET Framework 4 due to an Unknown error during the Windows Updates...

Mick Pletcher • Tuesday, May 15, 2012 • Adobe Flash, automatic update, Flash, Install, Installation, installation script, script

This script will install both the x86 and x64 versions of Flash Player 11.x. It uninstalls all previous versions of Flash first. Flash 11.x...

Mick Pletcher • Monday, May 14, 2012 • Install, Installation, Reader, Reader 10, Reader 4, Reader 5, Reader 6, Reader 7, Reader 8, Reader 9, Reader X, script, Uninstall, Uninstall Previous

This script will uninstall all previous versions of Adobe Reader back to 4.x, thanks to this user's list of GUIDs that I took and expa...

Mick Pletcher • Thursday, May 10, 2012 • capture, network, network location, Remote, usmt, vbscript

This script allows for the USMT process to be executed locally on a machine from a remote location with the output to either the local mac...

Mick Pletcher • Thursday, May 10, 2012 • memory, pagefile size, physical memory, set, virtual memory

The firm I work for uses Autodesk Revit design software that requires the minimum and maximum pagefile sizes to be double the size of the i...

Mick Pletcher • Tuesday, May 08, 2012 • profile, robocopy, usmt, windows 7, XP

Sometimes the USMT just fails and cannot be successfully run on a machine. The alternative is to have the user logon to a new machine and m...

Mick Pletcher • Tuesday, May 08, 2012 • architecture, operating system, OS, vbscript

This is a simplified procedure I wrote to determine both the OS and the architecture and return a single value showing both (i.e. Windows7x...

Mick Pletcher • Monday, May 07, 2012 • autodesk, install script, installation script, MDT, revit, SCCM, SMS, vbscript

Autodesk makes it very easy to create installation packages for deploying Revit software. The problem is that when executing these deploym...

Mick Pletcher • Wednesday, May 02, 2012 • deployment, deployment script, script, Software Installation, vbscript

With as often as I deploy software, I created a standard VBScript template to use when needing to create an unattended application installa...

Mick Pletcher • Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Some people think it is weird that I use the ANSI values in all of my VBScripts, but there is a good reason for it. There have been times w...

Mick Pletcher • Tuesday, May 01, 2012

I wrote this script in 2010 to be able to give me a list of systems that are currently logged off from a list of computers in a text file. ...