WiseScript

Many times I come across articles, where people discuss on which to choose WISE Script or VBScript while creating Custom Action in the package. Here are some advantages and disadvantages of both.

Want to use WiseScript to force a reboot, but do not know how? These steps can help you do just that. This tip will tell you the commands to use in order to reboot with WiseScript.

When a Driver application gets installed on to a machine, it installs driver information like PNF, INF, CAT files in the location "C:\Windows\inf". By default, these files will be named as oemXX.pnf or oemXX.inf where XX stands for the number. Ex: oem1.INF, oem1.PNF and so on. So when we do a capture of such applications, these XX values will be hard coded which does affect many other device driver applications which are pre-existent in the machine. Hence, in this case we used to customize the package by writing few Custom actions using "setupapi.dll" in such a way that it checks for the max XX value which is present in the machine and install the PNF or INF file of the package.

If your workstations are using the NTFS file system, you can use COMPACT.EXE that is included with Windows to compress files with a certain extension. For example, to compress all of the .CHM files (which are rarely used), use the command: COMPACT /C /S:C:\ *.CHM

Definition: A user profile is a group of settings and files that defines the environment that the system loads when a user logs on.

It includes all the user-specific configuration settings, such as program items, screen colors, network connections, printer connections, mouse settings, and window size and position.