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I want to start these articles with a small disclaimer: This project is only meant for teaching purposes, this is not the most secure way to handle licenses in your installer. Ideally this must be handled from the application itself, not the MSI. Use at your own risk, I will […]
I want to start these articles with a small disclaimer: This project is only meant for teaching purposes, this is not the most secure way to handle licenses in your installer. Ideally this must be handled from the application itself, not the MSI. Use at your own risk, I will […]
I want to start these articles with a small disclaimer: This project is only meant for teaching purposes, this is not the most secure way to handle licenses in your installer. Ideally this must be handled from the application itself, not the MSI. Use at your own risk, I will […]
In the last post, we had a look on how to create a C# (CSharp) DLL for MSI Custom Actions, but what if you want to create something more dynamic? What if we want to pass some MSI properties to our DLL, and in our DLL we use those arguments […]
Windows Installer technology offers the possibility to use Visual Basic Scripts, Javascript files or dynamic linked libraries (DLL) as custom actions to control the install/uninstall of a certain product. When discussing about dynamic linked libraries, many think that you can only use C/C++ to create suitable ones for the Windows […]
In a previous article, we had a look on how to get your office add-ins from the infrastructure by using SCCM and PowerShell. As mentioned, there are multiple ways in which you can achieve this so don’t take this article as the only way. PowerShell Script With this in […]
SCCM (or MEMCM as is newly branded) offers you the possibility to place Global Conditions for multiple areas of it, including for the Applications. When a global condition is placed on an Application in SCCM, the following actions are performed: 1. When an application is deployed on a MACHINE collection, […]
Intune (or as is newly called Microsoft Endpoint Manager) comes with many app types for deployments that you can do, such as Store Apps (Android, Ios, Microsoft, etc), Microsoft 365 Apps (Windows 10 and MacOS), Line of business apps, and also Windows Apps (Win32). Win32 apps deployments are designed for […]
While this is not a new topic, we all know that getting all Office add-ins installed on the machines of an infrastructure is a tricky topic. Microsoft released a new add-in inventory report for Configuration Manager back in 2017, but I didn’t wanted to use a mof file in my […]
Lately I’ve discussed with many users who want to learn Intune but don’t know where to start from. While Microsoft has a big documentation for it, and many IT Pros are writing tons of article on the subject, the best way to learn a technology is to start playing with […]
When you are working in an infrastructure and want to gather information from multiple machines in a single file, somewhere on a sharepoint, you will encounter a major problem, and that is that you can’t write in a file from multiple machines at the same time. Even on your own […]