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Faster deployment of new PC’s using GSS 2

When you have a fine Symantec Ghost Solution Suite deployment environment, it could still be a pain to deploy new computers. These are the steps you probably have to do:
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Force clients to choose the right Symantec Ghost Console

So, you have a great Symantec Ghost deployment solution to deploy your standardized sysprep image. On every physical (office) location you have a dedicated Ghost Console because the Ghost Console isn’t build for concurrent multi-user access and it would probably flood your backbone fiber if you only had one Ghost Console.

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Symantec Ghost Console networkcard detection update

When you install new computers in your corporate network with Symantec Ghost, choosing the right dos networkcard template could be a pain when you didn’t update your drivers that Ghost use for booting using the virtual partition in dos.  Major networkchip vendors like Broadcom or Intel are releasing every 2 months a new chip model along with a driver update… Continue reading

Using the Security Configuration Wizard to Harden the ISA Firewall without breaking VPN

You may have already read Using the Windows Server 2003 Security Configuration Wizard to Harden the ISA Firewall and now your VPN is broken…
I don’t want to critize DR Shinder a lot, because isaserver.org is a great resource when you want to setup an isa server and you are not so experienced in configuring firewalls….. but this remark frankly stunnished me.. His article about hardening windows 2003 on a ISA 2004 box with Security Configuration Wizard is just full of errors. Continue reading

Sync User Folders 1.0 (with AD OUs / Groups)

NOTE: 1.0 relies on MSXML6 I didn’t notice that because I install security Configuration Wizard by default on 2003 server, which contains MSXML6.
The dependency will be fixed in 1.1

SyncUserFolders can automatically create (new) user folders (sets rights, creates shares, and can execute a script on creation). Furthermore, SyncUserFolders can automatically archive user folders when a user is deleted. All at lightning speed… Continue reading

Yet another LogonScript

Yet another LogonScript (YaLS) is a situation independent logonscript. Everything is possible without scripting. YaLS processes all the information from active directory related to the user and the logged on computer. This saves the administrator some nasty scripting work and leaves the user with a nice skin and a fast and solid working loginscript. To see the possibilities of this logon script, look at: http://www.logonscript.org/features

Remove Novell Netware Client

When you migrate a Novell Netware client to an Active Directory domain it is always a difficult task to successfully uninstall an older Netware Client version.

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