In most of our projects we use RES Automation Manager for task automation and as I’m a RES Certified Trainer I have to explain how RES Automation Manager works and every time I give this training I have to explain “Conditions” and “Evaluators” so I thought it would be a good idea to write a blog about these two options, their differences and their use cases.
Tag Archive for Automation Manager
RES Automation Manager: Add fonts on Windows Server 2008 R2
Today while working on an unattended installation for a Citrix XenApp 6 on Windows Server 2008 R2 installation the customer asked me to add some fonts to the default installation. After some searching I found a VBS script that could do this, I had to change the script a bit because it gave some errors:
Category: Automation Manager, Citrix, Microsoft, RDS, TS, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: Automation Manager, Fonts, RES Software, Scirpts, Windows Server 2008
RES Automation Manager: Time sync issues
One of my customers had some time sync issues, we’ve build a new domain based on Windows 2008 R2 and all the DC’s in the new domain where configured with the core switch(es) as NTP server and the time on these switches where right. So we went on searching and apparently somebody turned on the following feature:
RES Automation Manager, server installations and automated diskpart
When I install servers I like to have a second drive to put data on. In this case we created servers based on ESXi so I created a single disk for the operating system (Windows 2008 R2) and a separate second disk for the data. When deploying via WDS/MDT the OS is installed on the first disk but the second disk had to be formatted and I had to assign a drive letter manual.
Category: Automation Manager, Citrix, MDT, Microsoft |
Tags: Automation Manager, Diskpart, MDT, RES Software
Add Computers Automatically into the MDT Database with Powershell and RES Automation Manager
Yesterday I was at a customer who uses WDS, MDT in combination with RES Automation Manager to roll out Windows 7 workstations. We created a database in MDT to store the serial number, the mac address and the host name of a machine. This is used when deploying a workstation so the sys admins don’t have to fill in the computer name during deployment. One of the sys admins asked me if we could automate the action of putting the data in the MDT database so when a new machine is deployed it registers in the database without interaction.
Category: Automation Manager, MDT, Microsoft |
Tags: Automation Manager, Database, MDT, Powershell, RES Software
Change CDrom drive letter with PowerShell
Here’s just a little Powershell script to change the CDrom drive letter to another drive letter, most customers use a standardized drive letter for this type of drive.
Category: Automation Manager, Microsoft |
Tags: Automation Manager, Microsoft, Powershell, RES Software
