by Jonathan Bennett | Jul 20, 2015 | Deployment
With the imminent public release of Windows 10 I have been readying my test environments to be able to deploy and test Windows 10. This is a quick overview of the main deployment scenarios supported and some links to the software you will need. Also I’ve included some...
by Jonathan Bennett | Jul 12, 2015 | Scripting
The newest versions of the AutoIt scripting language now come with a bonus for PowerShell users. A set of native PowerShell Cmdlets! This allows you to add the unique features of AutoIt – window manipulation and keystroke simulation – to your usual PowerShell scripts....
by Jonathan Bennett | Jul 8, 2015 | Deployment
This post contains a WinPE version list including the WinPE versions, the Windows version name, and the numeric Windows version string that it was built from. Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE or WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows that is...
by Jonathan Bennett | Feb 4, 2015 | Deployment
This post shows how to automate the numerous “first-run” dialogs that are shown when a user runs an Office 2013 or Office 365 application for the first time. With a standard local installation of Office 2013 this can be done in two ways. Firstly, by using Group...
by Jonathan Bennett | Oct 23, 2014 | Scripting
This post shows how to quickly get the current script directory using PowerShell, VBScript and Batch – the most commonly used scripting languages for Windows. The scripts I write usually read in other files or call other scripts. In order for these scripts to run from...
