Archive for the 'Zenworks' Category

Published by kyle on 31 Aug 2008

Track-It Madness

Sadly we’re having to migrate to Track-It at work, and muggins here has been tasked with ensuring the agent can deploy nicely. After some initial crazyness with manual installs, or login script launched installs, I managed to wrap it into an MSI. Details can be found over here.

Published by kyle on 21 Nov 2007

Zenworks Unattended Windows Upgrade

I’d been looking at how to upgrade our Windows 2000 machines to XP at work recently, without losing all the data on them. We would normally just reimage them, and put up with the lost data, but that seemed awfully heavy handed. Nobody on the web seemed to have detailed how to do it with Zenworks, so I came up with my own method. In the process of writing it up for our wiki, I put on the web for others to use as a resource should they need it.

Published by kyle on 04 Dec 2006

Zenworks & DNS pain

I’ve been wondering for a while how to import workstations into Zen when they are in a different DNS zone from the server that should be handling them. For instance, we have all our workstations in ch.nes.scot.nhs.uk, yet their DNS search domain is nes.scot.nhs.uk, due to the servers having their A records there. Continue Reading »