The new best practice when it comes to computer names seems to be setting the computers serial number as the name. This is great on vendors like Dell which uses a 5 digit Alpha-Numeric code. However, some vendors, like HP, uses a at least 10 digit Alpha-Numeric code. If you want to shorten this down a little bit in Configuration Manger or Deployment Toolkit, you can define this parameter: OSDComputerName=UKLO-#Right("%SerialNumber%",5)# If the computer has the serial number CZC8521WLT this will [...]
Java has become a little bit of a nightmare to deploy and looking for answers on Google doesn’t make you much wiser since people states all kinds of things in different forums. Therefore, I’m going to make my best to clarify how it works in Java 6 (1.6.0). Previous versions (1.5.0) supported silent install switches like JAVAUPDATE=0. However I've been reading through the silent switches documentation for Java 1.6.0 and have been unable to find anything equivalent at all to [...]
Categories: Deployment
Yesterday Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. SP1 does not present any major challenges in deployment. However, here's a short guide to how-to deploy it using silent install switches: Downloading SP1 stand alone installer will give you an ISO-file containing three relevant EXE-files with different versions of the installer: x86, x64 and ia64. Just extract the versions you need to a location of your choice. Possible silent switches for deploying SP1 stand alone [...]
Categories: Deployment, Windows
