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Modifying USMT and KACE to capture Firefox settings and other specific programs
It’s that time in the hardware refresh cycle again where you have to replace laptops on mass, well at least it is for me. Our main challenge was migrating users Firefox bookmarks and also the desire to capture Outlook signatures and auto-complete information without capturing all Office applications information (we wanted to start as fresh…
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Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) hangs on VASA registration
(I may as well do something useful with this blog like add content Google can index to help people solve the same problems I’ve encountered in my day to day work.) So we run Dell EqualLogic arrays at work and I’ve had a problem getting the storage provider to register with the VMware VASA service.…
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Day 4?
Well I think it’s day 4 of laptop rollout. 16 units imaged, configured and ready to start going to staff tomorrow. Steps so far 1) Pxe boot & image 2) Install Altiris client off USB key 3) Post Image script & Driver install Job. (Altiris) 4) Software install jobs (Altiris) There are a few other…
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My cardboard Fort
Well, he new computers have finally arrived. My office now looks like a child’s cardboard fort creation. This is only half of the boxes. There’s still the docking stations, notebooks stands and external monitors down in the loading dock. I have managed to create a universal image to deploy to my machines. It’s not…
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Sydney
For the past two days I’ve been working in Sydney. I shipped the old HP R3000xr UPS from Melbourne and bought 30 new batteries to suit. After reassembling the battery packs and making a quick hack saw assisted modification to some rack rails, it was mounted and running. (Tip of the day, buy the $30…