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Troubleshooting WMI With WMIDiag

August 22, 2007

If you have never worked with Microsoft PSS, PFE, QFE, MCS, RRE, or any other arm of their professional support staff you may not be aware of the tools that these army of men and women come equipped with to resolve issues. These are often home grown, field developed, custom tools that these same folks have written to help customers and the support staff at Microsoft quickly resolve issues and the WMIDiag tool is a prime example of this. Often these tools are used only by the Microsoft staff and are...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , , , , ,

ConfigMgr SDK BETA 2 Available For Download

July 31, 2007

You can download the BETA 2 version of ConfigMgr's SDK from the Connect site. Details of SDK are copied and pasted below. I got to sit down with several of the Tech Writers for ConfigMgr today at lunch and there was some very interesting conversations. The most important of which was probably that they have plans to release many more of the SuperFlows, I don't know if you have seen the one that is available publicly but they make the flowcharts look like hieroglyphics. The documentation online...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , ,

How To Trap The Exit Code With VBS From an MSI Package

September 28, 2006

From the forums: http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m_142866/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#142884 Original source: VBScript & SMS packaging? - 9/27/2006 10:05:05 PM No New Messages jsichak Starting Member Posts: 25 Score: 0 Joined: 5/26/2005 Status: offline Does anyone know if there is a good way to pass error codes from an MSI or other external application from a VBScript to SMS? We have done several packages that basically call and MSI along with some other customizations, and would like to have an accurate...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: ,

VBScript to Remove Old Versions of IXOS and SAP and Install New Versions

April 22, 2006

This is a script I put together to remove old versions IXOS and SAP and install the new versions. This has not been fully tested and I have altered it since I did my testing so use this AT YOUR OWN RISK . Make sure you modify it and test it throughly before using it. I cannot be held liable for any results, this is provided as is and only as a guide to help make a similar script for your own purposes. Make sure you watch the word wrap done during the posting or better, just get the attachment and...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , ,