Running Terminal Server through the NSW DET Portal on Vista

Please note: It is really not a good idea to run Internet explorer as an
administrator as per the instructions below.
Only use the IE session for the Portal and not general
web surfing as you are bypassing ALOT of the security measures in
place helping to protect you from malware/viruses etc. Use these
instructions at your own risk.
Seriously dont do it.

1. Right Click on the Internet Explorer icon and click on the “Run as administrator”

2. Click on “allow” (not pictured)

3. Login to your portal normally.

4. Click “I accept”

5. Click “My Applications” then on the terminal server link on the portal.

6. On the window that pops up. Single left click on the bar at the top and select “Install ActiveX Control”

7. Click “install”

8. Once again single left click on the bar at the top of the screen and select “Run ActiveX Control”

9. Select “Run”

If it still doesn’t work then you will need to close down the window and click on the terminal server
link again.

Remove all Network Printers using VBScript

To delete a network printer using a login script you can use the following vb code. Just copy and paste the text into a new file called DeleteNetworkPrinters.vbs and call it from within your login script.

This will not delete any local printers installed to the machine. This is really useful to put in before you start mapping network printers during user logon.

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‘– Removes all network printers but not any local printers–

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strComputer = “.”
Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2″)

Set colInstalledPrinters =  objWMIService.ExecQuery _
(“Select * from Win32_Printer Where Network = TRUE”)

For Each objPrinter in colInstalledPrinters
objPrinter.Delete_
Next

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I’ve tested this code on Windows XP and Windows 7 and it works fine. I’m going to assume this is working on Windows Vista as well.

Installing Quicktime 7 through Active Directory

Further to yesterdays posting I have also been trying to install Quicktime 7.62 to around 200 computers through the Active Directory application Software Installation GPO. As with Sketchup Apple did not provide an MSI file, but the quicktimeinstaller.exe file they do provide does extract to an MSI in the following folders when you double-click it and get to the “Welcome to the QuickTime 7 Installer” Screen:

Under Vista: C:\Users\User\Local Settings\temp\

Under WinXP: C:\documents and settings\User\Local Settings\Temp\

Under the above folders look for a folder who’s name is similar to IXP484.TMP (the string of three numbers appears to be random and changes each time you open the QuickTimeInstaller.exe) and copy the Quicktime.msi file to a place accessible by your workstations on a network.

After assigning the Quicktime.msi file in a GPO you will need to do one more thing to get the application to install. Right click on quicktime in your list of applications to be installed under software installation and select properties.

Note that the language says Chinese (Taiwan). If this package was left as is, the installation would not occur unless your installed XP/Vista systems were this language.

Now goto the Deployment Tab and click advanced towards the bottom. Select “Ignore language when deploying this package”. Click Ok, Ok and close down the Group Policy Editor and Group Policy Management