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Tips and useful resources

Windows Deployment Service (WDS) - Vista & Windows 7 Unattended Installations
Generating Windows IAS PEAP certificates using openssl
Changing Active Directory passwords via LDAP using PHP
Synchronising Mozilla, Thunderbird, Lightning Calendard with Exchange
Getting OpenSSH and Windows 2003 server working
Resizing NTFS partitions via PXE under Linux
Generate media barcodes dynamically

Steve's Top Tips

  • Want GNOME to put applications on a designated workspace or set its geometry at startup?
    Try using devilspie
  • Can't get Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) or Windows System Image Manager to create a catalog or get Parameter count mismatch errors?
    Try exporting the image first then creating the catalog from it. More info about WAIK and WDS...
  • Run explorer as administrator:
    runas /user:administrator "explorer.exe /separate"
  • View the contents of a source rpm:
    rpm2cpio rar-3.8.0-1.rf.src.rpm | cpio -it
  • To convert Nero NRG files to ISO - skip the first 300K:
    dd bs=1k if=image.nrg of=image.iso skip=300