Enable/Disable Offline Files
Here is a VBScript that will either enable or disable offline files. It can also be done as a policy by modifying the registry key listed ...
4G Signal Dies in Walmart Stores
Mick Pletcher
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3G,
4G,
cell signal,
dies,
LTE,
metal roof,
signal,
walmart,
warehouse,
weak,
weak signal,
WiMax
You walk into the Walmart store and your wireless 4G device comes to almost a screeching halt. This is not uncommon inside the newer Walmar...
Apple QuickTime Installation
Mick Pletcher
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auto-update,
autoupdate,
disable auto-update,
disable autoupdate,
disable quicktime task,
Installation,
quicktime,
quicktime task
In order to deploy QuickTime, you will need to extract all of the components to a directory. The installation executable that is downloaded...
SMS/SCCM Query for all Adobe CS3 products
Mick Pletcher
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This query will return a list of all systems with Adobe CS3 products. It omits the useless products such as Stock Photos, Asset Services, a...
"Unable to complete activation. Device not registered" on your iPhone/iPad
This error occurs when you install an ipsw file on your iDevice which has not been registered at the iOS Provisioning Portal. I got this er...
SMS 2003 WQL Compatibility in SCCM
Mick Pletcher
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When we started the conversion of SMS 2003 to SCCM 2012, I was really skeptical and dreaded to have to recreate all of the queries and coll...
Cannot Install .NET Framework 4 Updates and Security Updates
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...
Adobe Flash Installation Script
Mick Pletcher
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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...
Adobe Reader X Installation Script with Previous Version Uninstaller Scripts
Mick Pletcher
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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...
Capture USMT to the Local Machine or a Network Share
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...
Set Pagefile Size to double the Physical 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...
Robocopy Profiles when USMT Fails
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...
VBScript Subroutine to Determine the OS and Architecture
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...
Deploying Autodesk Revit Packages
Autodesk makes it very easy to create installation packages for deploying Revit software. The problem is that when executing these deploym...
VBScript Software Installation
With as often as I deploy software, I created a standard VBScript template to use when needing to create an unattended application installa...
Why I use ANSI values for certain characters in VBscripts
Mick Pletcher
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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...