Vista Operating System

Posted: februari 25th, 2009 | Author: Björn Axell | Filed under: MP, SCE, SCOM | No Comments »

In the old release of the Windows Client MP, the discovery didn’t really work for Windows Vista machines. This is now fixed in the updated version (6.0.6520.0)

Download Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista MP from Microsoft

New IIS MP released, now supports IIS7

Posted: februari 23rd, 2009 | Author: Björn Axell | Filed under: MP, SCE, SCOM | No Comments »

If you are using Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7 you might want to download the new IIS MP. Note that you need to install the KB957123 update to SCE/SCOM before importing the MP.

Download Windows Server Internet Information Services MP from from Microsoft

UPDATE – The update is removed due to some problems after it is installed. More information about this and how to fix it can be found at http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/02/25/problem-with-the-iis-modules-qfe-957123.aspx

Download the KB957123 update from Microsoft

How to manage drivers for your HP machines

Posted: februari 17th, 2009 | Author: Björn Axell | Filed under: Deployment, How-To, Tool | 1 Comment »

If you ever been working with OS deployment, you know that one of the biggest hassle is to download drivers and keep your driver “repository” up-to-date. Since some companies now need to download drivers for both Windows XP, Windows Vista and soon Windows 7 for both x86 and x64 architectures it gets even harder and more time consuming. The good new is that HP has a nice small tool that help you a lot. Below you can se some print screens of the tools.

First you need to do some basic configuration. Here you can specify how/where you want the downloaded files. You also specify in what language and for what OS type/architecture.
Then you select what type of machine and for what OS
Click the “Find Available Softpaqs” icon on the left top of the application and it will now show you a list of all types of Softpaqs that are available
Select the Softpaqs you want to download (there is quick selections if you click on the “Select Softpaq” drop-down-icon")
Select “Download and unpack” (this is very useful if you need to import the drivers in some other tool that require the standard drivers instead of an exe file”), then click the “Download” icon to start the download
The files will now be downloaded to your computer and also be unpacked. During the download you have Progress information in the lower left of the application. If you open the file explorer you will see the files and folders.