Archive for category Rants
All About Internet Explorer 8 & Uninstall/Rollback Script
Internet Explorer 8 is the newest release from Microsoft and recently left beta and hit automatic updates. I will be discussing the issues that I have encountered, and the fixes I have found. Additionally, I will include group policy templets to prevent its distribution and a uninstall script to remove it for systems. I came in Monday to find that the software was installed on a spattering of computers across sever different clients (about 250 computers). I spent most of the rest of the week fixing them.
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Removing Trend Micro Client/Server Security Silently Through Kaseya or a Login Script
As you might have noticed from my last post I have spent some time cleaning up Trend Micro issues on my networks this week. I have a few installs that are messed up and need a reinstall so I made this.
Script Description: Uninstall Trend Micro client
IF True
THEN
Set Registry Value
Parameter 1 : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARETrendMicroPC-cillinNTCorpCurrentVersionMisc.Allow Uninstall
Parameter 2 : 1
Parameter 3 : REG_DWORD
OS Type : 0
Execute File
Parameter 1 : c:Program FilesTrend MicroClient Server Security Agentntrmv.exe
Parameter 2 : /silent /noreboot
Parameter 3 : 0
OS Type : 0
ELSE
Automatically Remove Windows Search 4.0
Microsoft has a funny way of sneaking ‘features’ in with patches. In this case Windows Search 4.0 is not really a feature as much as a problem. It was installed on a few of the networks I support as part of our weekly patching, and the next day I got a bunch of calls about reduced performance. I figured that people would complain until it finished indexing. Not the case, it seemed to cripple computers and crush servers. It indexed to the point of actually leaving no resources for users to authenticate to one of our terminal servers. I started looking for a fix and came up with this:
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