On Thursday 04 December 2008 14:14:45 Stephen Kojoukhine wrote: > Sorry for the spam from me today... I wanted to know if there is > interest in an Office 2007 + updates, IE7 + updates, and WMP11 + updates > script chains. I have working ones, although I didn't care to localize > any update downloads besides English so if someone needs that some extra > work will be required. > > > > Also, when I do my builds I have a series of 4 autoit scripts that run > right before the end. The first does a few desktop tweaks, like arrange > icons, and several start menu tweaks. The second changes the folder view > options to what I like. The third performs the "first run" setup in IE7 > (it's in all my builds), tweaks trusted sites for our university, sets > notepad as html editor, disables phishing blocker, and sets google as > homepage and default search engine. These scripts are pretty rough, but > they work 99% flawless after all my tweaking. I don't mean to suggest > them in to the regular unattended repository, but I think some people > may find them useful and maybe can realize the awesomeness of autoit. > You can look at my code and reference the online docs that autoit > provides (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/), I'm sure doing > that anyone can pick up on it. > > > > So if anyone is interested in any of that stuff, let me know and I can > shoot them out in some fashion. > > > > ********* > > > > Secondly, I want to share something else. Some time ago I asked around > if we could format the display of the menu items that would span > multiple lines, and got nowhere. Well I worked out my own system to make > the .bat scripts look pretty during the menu's, simply using spacing. > > For example, this is the beginning of my core master build: > :: MASTER: Core Box Install > > SP3 + Updates + .Net 1.1/2/3.5 + McAfee + IE7 + UI Tweaks > This will build any desktop out there. Doesn't include modem or > bluetooth. > > :: ruler > > ----------------------------------------------------------|------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------|----- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --| > > :: ruler above is the adjusted ruler, below is an 80 character ruler > > (screen width) > > :: ruler > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------| > > :: ruler remember to remove the length of "n) name_of_script.bat (" > > from the adjusted ruler's begining > > > > Paste the above in to notepad or something similar that uses a common > spaced font and isn't wordwrapped. Basically the first line is what > you'll see on the menu. However it'll get wrapped because of the > character limit on the screen. The second line is a ruler, the dashes > and the first | mark off where the first line will end, the following > dashes and | represent the spacing of the following lines. So the result > of the above header is a menu item that looks like this: > > > > 1) _builds_core.bat (Core Box Install > > > SP3 + Updates + .Net 1.1/2/3.5 + McAfee + IE7 + UI Tweaks > > > This will build any desktop out there. Doesn't include modem or > bluetooth.) > > > > VS the usual look of: > > > > 1) _builds_core.bat (Core Box Install SP3 + Updates + .Net 1.1/2/3.5 + > McAfee + IE7 > > + UI Tweaks This will build any desktop out there. Doesn't include modem > or bluetoo > > th.) > > > > Notice that on the first line I'm compensating for the length of "1) > _builds_core.bat (" (just like the reminder in the comments) which > includes the filename of that script... yeah I'm anal... but you know > what, this system is being used by a handful of techs and I wanted to > make it readable. > > > > ********* > > > > Finally here's the last thing I want to share. Because everything > happens on the administrator profile, including the autoit tweaks to the > UI and such, I needed a solution to easily migrate the administrator > profile over the default user, so that new users would get the tweaked > environment. However because windows sucks so much, there's no end-all > way to get this done easily. > > > > I worked out something that is the next best thing (I think). Here's how > it works when you're building the machine: > > > > - Start unattended, pick your options like normal and walk away > until you see the machine at the logon screen to tell you that you're > done. > > o You can always log in as administrator, perform more setup and > tweaks, reboot and then continue > > - Log in as user migrator and step away for a minute > > - If nothing is happening on the screen, log out. > > - Log in as administrator, delete the migrator user and the > associated profile. > > > > What the above did was copy the administrator's profile over default > user, as well as clean up the netinst directory by deleting it for you > (our XP key is in there! Har har). Sure, it's things that can be done by > hand. But when you're building 20 machines together... typing in > "migrator" and hitting enter, 20 times, is much easier and faster than > the alternative of repetitive clicking. > > > > Under the hood this is accomplished with a combination of autoit and > batch files. The migrator user is automatically created during the > unattended build, and assigned a login script for which a netlogon share > is also automatically created. The scripts are copied to the proper > places, and are self terminating so they get deleted along with > everything else the first time they run. So migrator is a one time > thing. > > > > ********* > > > > Anyway, this is just a bunch of stuff that I worked out to make my life > easier and to make unattended work for our situation here. Feel free to > ask me any questions about the above nonsense. > > > > Steve
I wanted you to know that I read your post and found it very interesting. I have just recently gotten unattended to work for me and install most of the applications that I would be interested in using. I am now at the point of trying to figure out how to configure the systems, and I'm starting to learn that there are not very many config files to edit, and the registry entries are really close to gibberish (at least compared from what I'm used to). I have been using debian for so long now, I've lost much of my experience with windows, and I'm really terrible when trying to use a script to change options (such as exposing filename extensions, getting explorer to display in details, rather than icons, etc.) I'm thinking that looking at some tried and tested auto-it scripts will really help me with this. At the moment, and for the next few days, I'm going to be too busy with other work to spend time with this, but I wanted you to know that I'm interested in looking at your scripts and modifying them so that they will work for what I want to do. BTW, I'm already a bit off of the beaten path when using unattended, because my perl skills really stink. What I've been doing is using a modified install.pl file to create a modified "postinst.bat" that installs both python and perl, then my "base.bat" calls "base.py" and then python takes over and performs the rest of the install (and still uses todo.pl). -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson
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