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Custom Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) policy for a custom Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) install with SQL 2008 on a single server

infrastructure

I’m currently working on deploying ConfigMgr for a client.  They’re using FEP with the default settings and it’s unmanaged.  Of course FEP is unmanaged because I’m in the process of laying down ConfigMgr for software updates, operating system deployment, and last but not least a managed FEP environment.  It’s sort of like having the carriage…

OSD and RunOnce

infrastructure

I recently stumbled onto a somewhat major issue during OSD that is the result of a fundamental (bad) assumption made by many including Windows itself and Internet Explorer. That assumption is that at some point during the deployment of Windows (Windows 7 in this case), an Administrator will log on to the system. This may…

Installing Fonts During OSD

infrastructure

Here’s a simple little script to install fonts during OSD. Note that this is an example of not doing any manual work during OSD: manual work is un-IT. A quick web search, using Bing of course (Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Install Fonts Using a Script- – Hey), and a little scripting knowledge resulted…