Qualys Guard Qualys in a University Environment

The University I work for has began using Qualys for our Enterprise Vulnerability Scanning and so far it’s been well received.  The problem is that every “College/School” maintains their own systems thus we are decentralized, which makes maintaining Reports/Scans/Maps/etc. very difficult.

Because I have not found many posts/articles focused on a decentralized environment I decided I would explain the way we are approaching this.  This is all a work in progress - if you have any questions or ideas, please get a hold of me.:)

Mdt 2013 Installing Mdt 2013

Now we are going to install MDT 2013. This is a simple process but I wanted to show you anyways.

After you have downloaded MDT 2013 from Microsoft (See This Post)

When you first Launch the MDT 2013 Installer, you should see the following screen:

Click Next to Continue

Mdt 2013 Installing Adk for 8 1

Once you have all of the necessary files downloaded and saved on your Windows Server 2012 R2 box, then begin by installing the “adksetup.exe”.

The first screen that should pop-up is this one:

The Following Screenshots are all based on your own needs but these are the options that I have chosen for this setup:

Mdt 2013 Setting Up Mdt 2013 With Adk for Windows 7 8 8 1

Hello Everyone, in the following few weeks I will creating several new posts about setting MDT 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 to enable you to image your Dell OptiPlex & Lattitude machines. This will be similar to my MDT 2012 Update 1 Guide but a bit different as well. I hope you enjoy!

To Start things off, you need to download the following pieces of software:

MDT 2013 ADK for Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 ISO/DVD Windows 7 ISO/DVD WinPE 5.0 Driver CAB - From Dell

Mdt 2013 Pin Start Menu Task Bar Shortcuts Through Task Sequence

Below is how we stopped modifying the Start Menu & Task Bar shortcuts on our Default Image (GOLD IMAGE) using MDT 2013 Task Sequence.  This applies to Windows 7 and I’m sure it could be modified to work with Windows 8.1.  Check it out below and let me know if you have any questions.

To do this, you are going to need the following scripts in a folder on your MDT 2013 Server.

Script Adding Exchange Resource Accounts to Your Outlook

I work for a large public University and we have many Resource Accounts.  We needed a way to move from Public Folders but we wanted it to be seemless as possible.  To do this, I created this VBS script that allows anyone to add Resource Accounts to their Outlook 2013/2010 calendar as a shared calendar.  The user in question will have to run this script while Outlook is open and it will pull the Resource Account (add the Resource Account name in the RESOURCEACCOUNTNAME variable below) from the GAL and add it to the users calendar.  I hope this helps anyone interested in doing the same.

Script Removing Proxy From Firefox User Prefs Js

So, I was tasked with removing proxy settings from Firefox because of Webroot Desktop Proxy.  Removing them from the %Programfiles% directory was easy, the hard part was the user prefs.js.  Anyways, here’s a little script I created to remove Proxy settings and set them to No Proxy.

cd /D “%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" cd *.default set ffile=%cd% type “%ffile%\prefs.js” | findstr /v “user_pref(“network.proxy.type”, 2);">"%ffile%\prefs_.js” type “%ffile%\prefs.js” | findstr /v “user_pref(“network.proxy.type”, 0);">"%ffile%\prefs_.js” ren “prefs.js” “prefs_.js” del “%ffile%\prefs.js” ren “prefs_.js” “prefs.js” del “%ffile%\prefs_.js” echo user_pref(“network.proxy.type”, 0);>>"%ffile%\prefs.js” set ffile= cd %windir%