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Introduction

When you develop an application using Microsoft Visual Studio, it always requires Microsoft .NET Framework to be installed on clients in order to run the application but the required version may be vary depends on applications. Even third-party software around the world today are sometimes require Microsoft .NET Framework so you should install .NET Framework on clients at the first time you prepare them. But generally, there are computers which actively using by users and don’t have .NET Framework. Therefore, you should find a solution to install .NET Framework on clients without interrupt them. There are many solutions to solve the problem. In this post, I show how to silently install .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 on a local computer. The minimum recommend version is 2.0 Service Pack 1. Currently, the most updated version is 3.5 Service Pack 1.

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Create a Scheduled Task

From the previous part, I have created a VB Script that perform backup database task on SQL Server. Next, create a task schedule to execute the script on the specific time as I want. I want the script to be executed every day at 1:00 AM.

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Introduction

Last year, I wrote an article about backup and restore database on SQL Server with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. That article (How to backup and restore database on Microsoft SQL Server 2005) was simple and plain. But it will be inconvenience if you have to backup databases frequently. So I decide to write another article. This article, I show you how to backup databases automatically on scheduled time. Therefore, you don’t have to waste time to manually backup databases on SQL Server anymore.

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Finalize Cloned Disk

After I have cloned a disk from the sample disk. Next, I’m going to reboot the cloned disk on another PC. Then, Sysprep will regenerate the computer’s security ID (SIDs) and initialize Mini-setup to prepare the Operating System which is the topic I’ll cover in this post.

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Duplicate Disk with Norton Ghost

In this post, I’ll show you how to clone a disk to disk using Norton Ghost. From last post, I have run Sysprep tool to prepare the disk for cloning. This is just an example so I’ve attached another disk to this computer and I’m going to clone disk to disk. Then, I’ll get the cloned disk to attach to another PC and run Mini-setup which will be show in the next post.

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Prepare Source for Disk Duplication

In this post, I’ll show you how to create an Answer file for using when setup Windows after a computer is cloned. And run Sysprep tool to prepare a computer to be a sample computer (source disk) for cloning.

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Introduction

If you are a corporate administrator or an IT staff, you may have confront a situation that you have to install and setup Windows XP on many computers which all computers have identical hardware configurations. What will you do? Go to each computer, sit and manually install Windows XP? If only a few computers, it’s OK to do that. It would takes few hours to complete that. But what if there are more than 10 computers or 100 computers waiting you to install and setup. That would be painful to do that way.
Note: This topic isn’t a new technology but I think it may be useful to many people so I decide to post it.

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Deploy MSI Package

From the previous part, I have make an MSI package from Windows Media Player executable file. Now I can use the MSI package file deploy from Group Policy to computers in my domain. This post will show how to deploy the MSI package through Group Policy.

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Introduction

Microsoft Windows Media Player is a popular multimedia software that comes with Microsoft Operating System. It can play various media formats such as .avi, .cda, .mpg, .mid, .mp2, .mp3, .mp4, .wav, .wma, etc. You can see the supported file formats at Information about the Multimedia file types that Windows Media Player supports. But even you have the latest version of Windows Media Player, it sometimes may requires you to download additional codecs on the Internet.

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This post was continued from Getting started with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Part VI: Disconnected network(1). From the previous, you have already exported the WSUS’s meta data and update files. On this post, I’ll show how to import files and metadata to the disconnected WSUS server (the imported server).

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Introduction

In case that you have WSUS server separated from the Internet, you can’t get updates directly. Microsoft has provided a solution by setting up another WSUS server which can connect and update from the Internet. Next, download updates from the Internet to this server and then export updates and metadata to files and copy (may be via backup tape) to the WSUS server which is on the disconnected network.

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After 4 parts have passed, you have finished basic configuration on WSUS server. Next, you need to configure client computers to contact the WSUS server to get some updates. The best way is to configure from the domain group policy so that you only configure once. Then, the policy will be apply to all clients in the domain but this approach requires you to have an active directory in domain. In this post, I’ll show how to configure clients using group policy to get updates from the WSUS server.
Note: You can also configure clients that in a non-active directory, too. But I won’t cover in this article.

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