Deploying Applications with VMware ThinApp
KB ID 0000612 Problem ThinApp is an “Odd” VMware product, insofar as it’s got nothing to do with virtual machines or virtual technology. It’s a product that turns applications into “Stand alone” thin applications, that can be sent to a user and ran without the need for that user to have administrative access, or the need to install anything. ThinApp was a product called Thinstall that VMware...
Creating and Deploying USB Portable Applications with VMware ThinApp
KB ID 0000616 Problem The last time I wrote about deploying applications with ThinApp, it was geared towards getting standalone applications onto client PC’s for non admins to run, or putting them in a network share. But if you have a portable application the advantage is you can run it from portable media (Like a USB drive). Like before I’ll convert Google Chrome to a ThinApp, but the difference is I will set the...
World Wide Web Service Wont Start, Because Windows Process Activation Service Wont Start.
KB ID 0000878 Problem This problem started when a client attempted to add a ‘distribution point’ for System Center onto the server. This process failed, then Outlook Web Access stopped working. First line found that the World Wide Web service was not running, when they attempted to start it, this happened; Windows could not start the World Wide Web Publishing Service service on Local Computer. Error 1068: The dependency...
WDS Deploying Windows Part 2: Prepare Windows, and Capture to WDS
KB ID 0000737 Problem In part one we built and configured the WDS Server. Now you need to prepare the reference Windows 8 machine so that you can ‘capture’ its image. Solution Before you start, make sure that the machine you are imaging has PLENTY of room on one of its local drive(s), because it copies the image locally, before it sends it to WDS. Place Your Reference Windows 8 Machine in Audit Mode To put all the software...
SCCM OSD Capture a Windows 7 Reference Machine
KB ID 0000302 Problem You have a reference machine (physical or virtual), and you want to capture an image of that machine to your System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Infrastructure.So you can then deploy that image to multiple machines. Solution Prerequisites 1. SCCM needs to be installed and configured. 2. Download the Task and Registry File in Zip Format (Edit the .reg file with notepad to enter the correct administrator...