vbs – Ivan’s cloud and security blog

Deploying GreenShot screen capture software with SCCM 2012

5 January, 202115 January, 2014 by Ivan Dretvic

A colleague of mine asked if i could make a handy screen capture tool available to our users. I said ‘Sure – piece of cake!’. Well it was for the most part, aside from the installer loading the website post install.

I will document how i successfully completed the deployment of this software to users who opted to install it via Software Catalog website.

How to run domain admin tasks without being logged in as an administrator

17 October, 201116 June, 2011 by Ivan Dretvic

My problem was I did not want to always “Run As…” all my important admin programs and mmc snap-ins all day because i didnt log on as an admin. It simply took up alot of my time and it frustrated me. What i really needed was a way to automatically (and securely) load all my administrative programs without having to enter any user names or passwords. Well i have a solution for anyone that had the same pain as i did.

The solution started off with the Free Elevation PowerToy found here where i used the elevation files in their original way, however i altered the original registry keys that go in the context menus along with the elevate.vbs to cater for certain anomalies.

Who hates Java? (how to remove all Java installations on your Network)

5 January, 202111 February, 2011 by Ivan Dretvic

My colleague who is rightly paranoid about security has a dislike for the buggy software from Java, so one day he shoots me off a link to a forum where he found a VB script to remove ALL versions of java from a PC. Fantastic i thought, now we just have to put it in our environment!

Here is the forum from where we got a VB script from:
http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=29809

So they guys on the forum post did all the hard work, all I did was apply it to our situation. Here is what we wanted to achieve:

Run the script on every PC (client) in our network – we didnt have alot of users that actually required Java so we decided to remove everything, and only install it (in a managed way) to the users that required it.
Make sure the whole script did not run EVERY time the PC was turned on.
Output the log files somewhere centrally so we can monitor the uninstall process.
Provide a managed Java deployment solution via GroupPolicy