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Adding a Network Shortcut when the Network Location is Unavailable

Many packagers wonder how they can create a shortcut to a network location when they dont have access to it during the packaging process. Here’s how: Step 1 Set up a property called WkDir (if you call it something else,...

September 20, 2013

MSI Application Packaging

Remove part of an Environment variable path, but not the whole Environment variable!

The problem was that we needed to remove part (i.e., not all of it for obvious reasons!!) of the PATH environment variable during installation (long story, but this path was junk left behind from another install). As an example, we only...

September 12, 2013

CubMakr

CubMakr – Video Demonstration

Link to tool: CubMakr Online Tool This is a quick (kind of) demonstration of the CubMakr online tool. It goes through a few examples of how cub files can be generated easily without any scripting knowledge required.

September 6, 2013

PowerShell

Using PowerShell and FTP to Create a Directory

Here’s an example of using PowerShell and FTP to create a directory using credentials to authenticate. If there is an error during the process, we try to see if it’s because the directory already existed. If not, then it must...

August 1, 2013

VBScript

Cascading Dropdown List using VBScript, XPATH and an XML back-end

I’ve been working on more toolsets recently, and we needed a way to populate multiple dropdown lists in a HTA file, and make them cascade. Cascading is basically where the results in the second dropdown list are dictated by the...

August 1, 2013

VBScript

Using VBScript, CAML queries and SOAP to Read from a Sharepoint List

We use a Sharepoint list to track various information. The toolsets that we create should ideally read from these lists, so that every team member shares the same information and can see real-time data. To do this, we used VBScript...

August 1, 2013

PowerShell

Using Powershell, CAML queries and SOAP to Read from a Sharepoint List

Similarly to my post here this post describes how we can use Powershell to extract information from a Sharepoint list. $list = $null $service = $null # The uri refers to the path of the service description, e.g. the .asmx page...

August 1, 2013

MSI (Windows Installer) Custom Actions

Extract an EXE from the binary table and run it from a VBScript Custom Action

Somebody over at ITNinja recently asked how they could run an executable stored in the binary table, from a VBScript Custom Action. Here’s an example I knocked up which describes how to extract an EXE from the binary table and...

August 1, 2013

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