Scripting

When packaging an application requiring an exception within the XP firewall, you can automate the exception using netsh.

I created an article discussing how to utilize a simple ping utility in conjunction with Task Server and Connector Solution to create a job which reports on which machines are up or down. The natural extension to this would be to attempt to "wake" or turn on those machines.

I have had several requests from clients who would like to have a report that lets them know if their desktops are powered up or powered down. Usually this is something that they would like to know first thing in the morning. Altiris provides this for servers, however there is nothing really available for desktops.

Here is a tool that automates the creation of Custom Inventory xml files when reading from an INI file. The only customization that needs to be done is replacing the FileLocation variable on line 18 with the location of where you want to save the file to.

This script will set all pointing devices that are connected to a computer to wake on LAN.

NOTE that setting a mouse to WOL may cause unwanted result because it is more sensitive then keyboard.

If you decided to implement a power management solution with Altiris NS, this script will set all keyboards in a computer to wake on LAN.

This allows the user to resume from sleep or hibernate mode with just pressing a key.

Late last week and earlier this week I posted two different Visual Basic scripts. Being someone who doesn't know much about VB scripting and knew even less when I started on this process I felt it would probably be beneficial for those like me to go over the scripts and give some examples of adding other files that may need to be backed up. So I posted an article on modifying the backup script I posted earlier. If you were using the restore script, found here, you may want to modify that one as well, understanding that process will be the goal of this article.

Late last week and earlier this week I posted two different Visual Basic scripts. Being someone who doesn't know much about VB scripting and knew even less when I started on this process I felt it would probably be beneficial for those like me to go over the scripts and give some examples of adding other files that may need to be backed up.

We can easily use Set Property Custom Action to set Windows Installer Property, but sometimes we wish to set the property directly in VbScript, specially if we are taking an input from a user through VBScript. Hope this tip helps.