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Implementing a Deepfreeze upgrade via Symantec-Ghost file operations instead of
• To upgrade from novell to AD I need to implement a deepfreeze maintenance thaw window, to allow updating of the domain machine password on the normally frozen client.
• If you have no other than built-in/FOSS means, you can probably achieve this with RunOnce, AutoAdminLogon, AutoAdminLogonCount, and reading out the client @computername DefaultDomainName with AutoIt. I rather try using Ghost:
• Put files on headless to be able to ghostcast them without access to fileshares
• ghosttask: df6 boot thawed (I need to unfreeze, w/o deepfreeze clients connected to deepfreeze server)
• ghosttask: df6 uninstall:
o ghostcast transfer deepfreeze 7 and 6 installer to c:\
o C:\df6wks.exe /uninstall
o Reboot
• Ghosttask: df7 install
o ghostcast transfer deepfreeze installer to c:\
o C:\dfwks7726.exe /install\
o reboot
o Should be safe to have the installer lie around: While Deepfreeze 6 uninstall does not require a password, it will be history; also, to permanently uninstall, you first need to unfreeze, which requires a password
• ghosttask: df7: boot thawed : Dfc.exe [installs into path] pwd /bootthawed
• ghosttask: winsockreset
o netsh winsock reset or cmd /c netsh winsock reset
• ghosttask:
o ghostcast transfer schliessnicht.exe into C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup to keep Sanako alive for oral exams (permanently, this should be enabled using this TBA:extension method to do advanced remote control of Sanako study1200 student clients; where is the delete option? can only think of overwriting with an empty file of the same file name)
• ghosttask: df7: boot frozen: Dfc.exe [installs into path] pwd /bootfrozen
• as long as I do not make changes to the default user and to user settings (like what app rm is associated with), I do not need to reimage – BUT: to run acrobat, flash, windows updates, without reimaging, instead of task, I would need to automate gui interaction after autoadminlogon as labadmn, which means
o ghosttask: ghostcast transfer 1 autoit that rewrites registry and reboots to autoadminlogon
o then startup autoit to automate gui interaction with nal?
How LRC assistants can print LRC jobs from the reception desk
- If you have (ONLY! printing is tracked) work-related jobs to print from the reception desk, please use this method:
- Choose “print” as normal and then this Toshiba printer driver ONCE I HAVE IT INSTALLED:
- the printer driver will ask you for a code; the code in the LRC Moodle announcement board sticky post, above the threads:
- You can pick up the print outs in the mailroom behind the LCS department’s main office.
How to access your HTML code in Joomla
- Could have an easier icon in the WYSIWYG editor:
Mousewithoutborders, software KVM from Microsoft
- Mousewithoutborders, a free tool from Microsoft, allows you to control, from one keyboard and mouse two (or more) computers on the same network. These could be – as in my case – a laptop temporarily placed on the same desk as a desktop, or a desktop next to a server (if you do not run it headless anyway).
- Limitations
- Mousewithoutborders needs to control the Windows Firewall which is at work, in a domain administrator controlled windows network, disabled – so no luck getting it to work at the office desk, where it would be even more useful.
- For my Mousewithoutborders setup, to not exhibit connection issues, it seems crucial that both local and remote machine a checked in the matrix, and you even may have to type the network name of the remote computer.
- While initially, my network configuration was autodiscovered and the clients on the two computers that I try to control from one keyboard and mouse autoconnected, once I type the ID key into both installations
- Later, after I once used the “Clear”-button to cut the connection (when I temporarily had to physically reconfigure the arrangement of the two computers where the mouse movement across screens interrupted the new work flow)
- they lost their connection, and also could not discover the other client, when I requested reconnection (using the practical keyboard shortcut option form the “Other Options”tab: one client managed to remember the other, but “timed out”trying to connect; the other client I could not get to remember or autodiscover the other client), until I manually checked the checkbox next to the computer icon (screen icon turns blue) and typed the network name of the other computer into the textbox. Glad that I have the functionality back now…
RSS feed XML categories are case-sensitive on IE9, if not on WordPress.com
- From which follows: tightly manage your metadata…..
Using geolocation information in photos for documentation?
- During documentation writing today, I noticed that my WlGallery suddenly (?) started displaying the geotags in pictures taken with my Palm Pixi which I set a long time ago to store (and share) location information. I t looks like this has started working earlier, but gone unnoticed.
I also looks like it uses cell tower triangulation, not GPS data (when the latter is not available?): 
At such a granularity, this feature can not be useful for generating documentation. But maybe for excursions? - But seems still a bit iffy, on the Pixi side of things: I am pretty sure that previously, I could not see geotags in my photos, even though I tried several image metadata viewers. Also, the Pixi does not always add geotags: is this limited to pictures taken when there are network connectivity issues?
- Also seems like editing operations in wlgallery, including create panorama, “eat” the geotags in the output image….
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