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Deploying MYOB Premier via GPO – The free way

Posted on 16 May, 2008 by Daniel

Read my update: http://daniel.streefkerkonline.com/update-deploying-myob-premier-via-msi/ After many attempts over the years to get MYOB Premier deployed via AD GPO, I stumbled across a method this morning using only free tools. These two tools are an essential part of my MSI toolkit, … Continue reading →

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GPO-Based Deployment of Outlook 2003 Junk Email Lists

Posted on 27 February, 2008 by Daniel

Here’s how to deploy an Outlook 2003 Junk Email list to your domain via GPO.

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Creating a new OEM Windows XP CD

Posted on 2 October, 2007 by Daniel

Steps to create a new XP OEM CD. Handy if you’ve lost the vendor’s original CD, and you want to use the key that’s on the physical PC. Using a retail or MSDN CD won’t help, as your key won’t … Continue reading →

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Be gone, Windows Update reminder

Posted on 2 August, 2007 by Daniel

A quick way to stop Windows Update from asking you to reboot is to simply: Go to Start, Run Type ‘net stop wuauserv’, and click OK This will stop the service. I don’t see this as a problem, as the … Continue reading →

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Poor Man’s Grep (Windows)

Posted on 2 August, 2007 by Daniel

You can filter out text strings in Windows command prompt by piping the output to the ‘FINDSTR’ command. See below for an example: netstat -an | findstr 192.168.1.15 TCP 192.168.1.10:1088 192.168.1.100:8080 ESTABLISHED

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