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Friday, June 20, 2008 4:24 PM

Security Certificates, Trusted Publishers, and ClickOnce Apps

The real author of this entry is Steve Grinker (he doesn't have a blog yet, I'm trying to convince him to get one here). By the way, Steve, yes, your name is going to be prominently displayed until...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:02 PM

Adobe FlashPlayer 9.0.115 cab updated for ITCU

If you use the Custom Updates Publishing Wizard (ITCU) to deploy Adobe Flash Player, they've released the catalogue update. So if you haven't created your own rules; or used the one I posted previously...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:41 AM

Adobe FlashPlayer 9.0.115 via ITCU

This is Part 3 of 3 A bit of background, see http://www.myitforum.com/articles/6/view.asp?id=11240 and http://www.myitforum.com/articles/6/view.asp?id=11243 Essentially, because ITCU worked so well with...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:09 PM

Adobe FlashPlayer 9.0.115 MSI Customize via Transform

This is Part 2 of 3 Part 1 of 3: see http://www.myitforum.com/articles/6/view.asp?id=11240 In production, we had deployed version 9.0.47 via ITCU. During testing, we noticed that although 9.0.115 was installed...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:43 PM

Adobe FlashPlayer 9.0.115 via MSI doesn't really uninstall

A bit of background: In production, whenever we deploy an application, we always have to know what the rollback plan will be, in case we need it. We've been burned too many times by "it's...
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Friday, November 16, 2007 12:07 AM

Stamp your MSI/MST

In an email list, I mentioned that we 'stamp' our repackaged .MSI's or any .MST's (Transforms) we modify with some additional registry keys, and the mini.mof has a section for pulling in...
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Monday, February 05, 2007 3:26 PM

Using SMS 2003 to run Sun Java's TZUpdate

I suspect my environment is like others... where although you are pushing out the latest Daylight Savings Time compliant version of Sun Java Runtime, you'll have some exceptions where computers have multiple...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 1:56 PM

Book Reviews - Summary

I think my collection is nearly complete for available SMS 2003 books. I may be missing a couple, but so far I've got Pro SMS 2003 , Rod Kruetzfeld SMS 2003 Administrator's Reference , Ron D. Crumbaker...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:02 AM

WMIC and Windows Installer products

Windows Installer (.MSI) installs are great for remote administration. One of the under-utilized tools (IMHO) is WMIC, the WMI interface from a command prompt. I got these tips from Darwin Sanoy, when...
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Friday, September 22, 2006 4:37 PM

Flash 9.0.16, Windows Installer 1603 error and oleaut32.dll

This may be old news, but it was new knowledge for me. In troubleshooting why ~1% of the deployments of the latest Flash, 9.0.16.0, was erroring with 1603 error messages, I found this fix in a google search...
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Friday, September 08, 2006 2:53 PM

Uninstall by Guid example - vbscript

usage: cscript/wscript NameOfScript.vbs {GUID} {GUID} etc.; again, just putting it here mostly for myself for reference. On error resume Next CountApps = Wscript.Arguments.Count If Wscript.Arguments.Count...
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