Application packagers know there are some vendor MSIs that just can't be edited with Wise but can be edited with ORCA. If, in such a case, we want to add a file to the package, we can't with ORCA because ORCA has limitations and can not compress the file. In these cases, you can follow the steps given below to add the file to the package.

Steps:

1. Make the .CAB FILE of the File you want to add using makecab command.
   

   Makecab [Source] [Destination]
   
   

   Where source = path of the file along with file name and Destination = Path where you want .CAB file.

2. Go to Component Table
   
   1. Make a component with the name of the file you want to add.
   2. Set the directory column with the path where you want to install the file.
3. Go to featurecomponent Table
   
   1. Associate the component made in step 2 with the feature (Complete in case of captured...

Using Wisecomcapture is always the best option to use when registering a DLL. See this article for some background.

But, if there is a case when the DLL doesn't exist in the package and there is a necessity to register a file manually, this tip should prove handy.

To manually register a .DLL using regsvr32.exe in a .MSI package:

Step 1: Go to MSI Script in the WSI project.
Add an Execute Program from Destination custom action after InstallFinalize in the Execute Immediate tab.
The Execute Program From Destination dialog appears.

Step 2: Fill in the following information:
Custom Action Name: <registerdll>
Working Directory: Enter SystemFolder
EXE and Command Line: Enter the full path to regsvr32.exe and the full path to .DLL.
Example: [SystemFolder]regsvr32.exe [WindowsFolder]123.DLL

Step 3: Accept all other defaults and click OK.

Ensure that the...

Sometimes there is a need to slow down a software deployment. I had it once -- when deploying encryption software. In my case the problem was main encryption server -- which was not able to process more than 50 events from clients.

Here's how to sloooooow your deployment down a bit.

I was wondering how to deploy it slower to my more than 1000 machines. SQL helped me with simple solution -- which is -- using a SELECT TOP query in the target collection.

Simply create your target collection using the SELECT TOP ... query and it will be updated in next collection update cycle.

Enjoy your slow uptake ;-)

After much research, we have found that it is possible to capture the configured speed of network cards. This is found in the root\WMI namespace in the MSNdis_LinkSpeed class.

Note that the link speed is the configured speed regardless of whether it is automatically or manually configured.

Also, the speed is in KB and the right-most digit is a single decimal. That means that 100000 is 10,000.0 KB/S.

Here is a sample custom inventory source:

<InventoryClasses>
<InventoryClass name='linkspeed' manufacturer='Altiris' description='' version='1.0' platform='Win32' mifClass='Altiris|MyCustomClass|1.0'>
<xml xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema">
<s:Schema id="RowsetSchema">
<s:ElementType name="row" content="eltOnly" rs:updatable="true">
<s:AttributeType name="c0" rs:name="Active" rs:number="...