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Comment on The Bees Knees script for installing VMware Tools by jeremy

jeremy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:21:56 +0000

Thanks Joshua. If only Vendors understood integration!

I’ll send you the script via e-mail as I’ve had a complaint that copying the code above doesn’t work.

Cheers,
Jeremy.

Comment on The Bees Knees script for installing VMware Tools by Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:09:29 +0000

Thank you very much, this is exactly what we have been looking for. Perhaps vmware should offer something like this as an option for deploying tools

Comment on Script to replace Delprof.exe by Erik

Erik — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:17:20 +0000

You’re welcome, and as you said, all respect to Joe: starting with an existing script saves one from re-inventing the wheel.

By the way, a “heads up”: the syntax for the script’s parameters has changed in my incarnation and there are also some behavioral changes such as read-only being the default and “include” and “exclude” not being mutually exclusive, so any batch files to run the script would have to be updated.

Comment on Script to replace Delprof.exe by jeremy

jeremy — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:15:36 +0000

Thanks Erik.

I’ve actually had mixed results with the script too and have certainly found that it’s not doing its job on Win 2008 R2, but haven’t really had the time to look into it. Like you say, and with respect to Joe, it does have some flaws. You’ve done a great job with the re-write. Thank you for sharing and leaving a comment so that readers can link across to your post.

Cheers,
Jeremy.

Comment on Script to replace Delprof.exe by Erik Oxaal

Erik Oxaal — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:36:52 +0000

Hi, DeleteProfiles.vbs doesn’t work on Win 7 or Server 2008, but I have an updated version available: the download link is at http://oxacon.blogspot.com/2011/12/delete-windows-profiles.html

Enjoy!

Comment on Script to remove orphaned/stale printer objects by jeremy

jeremy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:18:04 +0000

Hi William,

Sorry for not responding earlier. I wrote this for a Citrix environment where it’s been used and tested many times on a Windows 2003 server. I have not tested it on a Windows XP workstation. However, from your description the “Memory is locked” error occurs when it tries to enumerate the registry using the EnumKey method and the array it is trying to return. There may be better ways to write this so that errors like these may be avoided. I will try and review it at some stage in the future. Just Googling shows that commenting out the Option Explicit statement and all the Dim statements helps. That’s not a good practice, but may help people overcome this issue until I’ve had time to re-write it.

Cheers,
Jeremy.

Comment on Script to remove orphaned/stale printer objects by jeremy

jeremy — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:31:48 +0000

If you’re referring to “Set oShell = Nothing”, that’s a very old habit and allows us to explicitly clean up the objects in the right order before they go out of scope. In this function there is only one object, so it’s not a good example. However, if you had multiple objects and left it to the script engine to destroy them when they go out of scope, it may not do it in the desired order, and therefore destroy objects you’re relying on in other areas within the procedures. Some will argue that it’s unnecessary code. Others will argue that it’s a best practice.
Cheers,
Jeremy.

Comment on Script to remove orphaned/stale printer objects by Captain Obvious

Captain Obvious — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:45:43 +0000

I do not quite understand why you disassociate a local variable from its object right before you exit a procedure.

Comment on Installing the HP Universal Print Drivers on Citrix/Terminal Servers by jeremy

jeremy — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:31:41 +0000

Thanks for the update Andy

Comment on Installing the HP Universal Print Drivers on Citrix/Terminal Servers by Andrew Morgan

Andrew Morgan — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:22:48 +0000

Hi Jeremy, with the latest installer most of these command lines are obsolete, instead use:

start /wait install.exe /q /h /dm /npf

and to delete the printer with powershell use:

gwmi win32_printer | where {$_.name -like “HP Universal*”} | % {$_.delete()}