Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Windows Package Manager

A Windows Vista command-line tool which can used on offline Windows Image to install, remove, or update Windows packages and can install only .cab files.

Benefits of Package Manager

* Install or uninstall hotfixes provided by Microsoft.
* Install language packs.
* Add out-of-box drivers to the driver store.
* Enable or disable Windows features.
* Accept an answer file as input (offlineServicing settings only).
* Add packages to an offline Windows image.
* Install or uninstall multiple packages with one command string.

Limitations

* Remote installation over the network is NOT possible.
* Do not use Package Manager to install Windows PE.
* Do not use Package Manager to service a Windows image (.wim file) on which the Out Of Box Experience (OOBE) has already been run

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Boot.ini on Vista and later

Boot.ini is replaced by Boot Configuration Data Store (BCD Store). BCDEdit.exe is the command line tool used for managing these BCD Stores.

BCDEdit.exe is the replacement for Bootcfg.exe.

You can also configure BCD Stores using WMI which is having more flexibility with scripting and lot range of custom requirements can be implemented.

More information : Click here

Windows Language Pack Installation Command

lpksetup.exe is used to install the Windows Language Packs. This is available by default on all Windows Operating Systems.

lpksetup.exe /i * /p

This command will install all the language packs from the indicated path

lpksetup.exe /i en-US /p

This command will install only the english language pack. You can extend the command by including more language packs

lpksetup.exe /u en-US

This command will uninstall the indicated language pack.

Silent

If you want this command to be executed silently without user interface being displayed, please use /s at the end of the commandline for silent installation or uninstallation

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

1E Nomad Enterprise - Nomad Branch

Users in the remote branches will be benified from Nomad in Software Distribution. Nomad has a very tight intergration with Microsoft SMS and SCCM Config Manager .

Once the data is distributed by Nomad Branch , it shares the data with Peer's. You can configure Nomad branch with or without multicasting.

Benefits of Nomad Branch

- Cost Reduction by reducing the number of Servers in Branches
- Bandwidth Control
- Multicasting