Files to exclude when GHOSTing a system

Working on updating a GHOST image, as we’re deploying a new operating system out to 2000+ clients.  DO you think I can find my list from 2001?

Nada, and I’ve looked everywhere.

Here is a list I grabbed from searching the internet:

Directories to clean up:
%TEMP%
C:\WINDOWS\PREFETCH

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SMS 2003 Server running slow, check your AV exclusions.

We had a problem with one of our SMS servers today, it was not processing DDR records.

All 19,000+ of them.

After some investigation, a co-worker found it was a corrupted DDR record which caused SMS to get stuck. 

After we fixed it, SMS started processing them records at 1 DDR per [...]

So does the Corporate IT Policy get enforced?

It’s been my sad experience over the last 20+ years, that what’s in the IT Policy vs. what gets enforced, is a bit of guess work for most people.  Here is a short guide.

Always enforced. Looking at illegal porn (kiddies, dogs & gerbils).  If we find out about it, we have to [...]

Lotus Notes Shell links

The user reported

In Lotus Notes, when I create an attachment, I click on "My Documents" shortcut, and it should take me to My Documents folder. BUT Lotus Notes is adding it as an attachment instead."

Indeed it is.

Fixed in Lotus Notes 6.5.1, with a setting added to the [...]

To patch or not

I don’t know  the answer, and here’s an explanation why.  There are two schools o thought about whether your system should have the latest patches or not.

“The patch everything what moves” thinking. Is all about doing small, continous, incremental updates.  This is to keep your systems in a healthly supportable range.  A healthy [...]

So THAT’S where the Little Black Dress comes from!

No lady’s wardrobe is quite complete without the little black dress that has been around forever.

A little black dress is an evening or cocktail dress, cut simply and often with a short skirt. Since Chanel introduced the “little black dress” in 1926, it has become the epitome of chic. Her first LBD was [...]

Bye bye Palm Pre

I wrote about the Palm Pre back in June.  Just heard that Telstra have no plans to introduce it to Australia.

The Pre, and Palm are dead, they just don’t realise it yet.

Nigel No Friends

A co-worker migrated the last user off our old BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Barry.

"Barry to be renamed to Nigel-No-Friends", was the announcement.

(Non Australian readers should look at the Urban Dictionary for the meaning of Nigel No Friends)

Update: * Nigel No Friends = Billy No Mates, in the UK. * [...]

Sometimes search assist doesn’t work that great.

I was searching for the coffee chart here, and I started typing hot co, and I got these suggestions from DogPile Image search

I suppose the results could have been worse (NSFW).

[...]

Windows Update website – Error 0x80240025

on a Windows XP PC.  As I wrote in Windows Update: Network policy settings prevent you from using this website …, you’d often see a Windows Update error when your Corporate IT types block access on purpose.

But wait!  I’m my Corporate IT type!  What did I do to break it for myself???

Well [...]