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#132248 - 2005-12-30 10:24 AM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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(not because we roam much, but for backup, recovery and control purposes).




1. Don't see how having a roaming profile helps do a backup or recovery (unless you mean the files stored in the profile but that to me actually works semi against backups by being maybe a bit too fluid or a roaming profile failure to save)
Don't see how that gives you control either.

Supporting profiles on Windows 9x is kludgey at best. Is slow as heck and often time problematic.
Redirecting the My Documents folder to a network share and lettting users know not to save data locally on the system would be better (imho) Oh well, what can I say. I'm a roaming profile hating kinda guy - just plain dislike that technology. I hate the few seconds it takes to load local settings let alone network copied data.

There is no PAUSE in KiXtart unless you mean SLEEP which I use quite often. I use WKIX32.EXE and hide everything, which you can't do on Windows 9x as it has to launch from a batch file and NT does not.

There are methods to force single logon, you can search the board here or on Google and you should be able to find tools/methods to do such.

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#132249 - 2005-12-30 02:24 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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use the UNC for PST location, not mapped drives
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#132250 - 2005-12-30 06:45 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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the given suggestions are more like request for help.
clearly, the second on is about script control and not a single feature to be added.

now, the first suggestion would require a huge product to really work as kixtart only solution and thus is not really in the scope of current kixtart development.
and again, you can make a kixtart script that deals with your suggestion.
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#132251 - 2005-12-31 02:41 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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And both suggestions can be utilized via a combination of already existing tools. Just check this BBS.
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#132252 - 2006-01-04 02:51 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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NT4 SP6a - sorry for the delay, only just found your post.
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#132253 - 2006-01-04 03:00 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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I used mapped drives as they're easier to use eg if U: is home directory then U:\Outlook would be the folder where PST is stored - and it would be U:\Outlook for each user as each user has their own unique home directory set on NT's User Manager for Domains. Why do you recommend using UNC?
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#132254 - 2006-01-04 03:13 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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Backup, control and recovery:
BACKUP - the server has daily external backups, the workstations don't. As the profiles are stored on the server they are included in the backup.
CONTROL - as profiles are stored in one central place they are easier to administer and maintain.
RECOVERY - when a workstation dies I find most of the time is lost restoring settings - not re-installing software, with roaming profiles the settings are restored automatically.

I've searched for single logon - loads of hits but nothing that does the job.

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#132255 - 2006-01-04 03:18 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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Jens - thanks for your post. I've checked the BBS but can't find the tools I need. I'm new to this and would appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks. Kevin
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#132256 - 2006-01-04 05:46 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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kevin, don't know if you realized or not but this thread is for kixtart suggestions for kixtart development.
none of your suggestions fall into that.

you have clearly wishes of scripts or programs or whatever that do a lot of stuff, but, please go ahead and open your own thread instead of blowing this one wide open.
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#132257 - 2006-01-05 06:10 AM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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only allow a user to log into the network on one workstation at a time



Search the BBS for CCONNECT.EXE

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Outlook to load as part of the login



Load Outlook via Startup entry
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#132258 - 2006-01-05 10:19 AM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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Jens - thanks for the info - exactely what I needed. Kevin
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#132259 - 2006-01-05 10:22 AM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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Jooel - sorry, this did started our as what I thought were a couple of suggestions - but looks like I got it wrong. Sorry again, Kevin.
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#132260 - 2006-08-04 11:12 PM SetFocus improvement
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"... there is no exact match, any application whose title string begins with title is activated....:

On a few occasion this feature has been troublesome. I would like to see it do a exact match by default, and then add a wildcard ability for if you need to do partial string matches.

A useability suggestion, and definitly a high priority one!!!!

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#132261 - 2006-08-08 09:00 AM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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The abilty to support [out] variables in COM objects, variables that are created by the COM object itself, and passed "out" of the method call. This would be usefull for some devious sneaky WMI calls. I think these [out] variables are subtely different that your std byref type.




Here's my vote for that.

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#132262 - 2006-08-08 04:24 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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hmm...
the text you quoted though sounds weird.
specifically the last sentence.
what's the difference with out and byRef?
I mean, I can't see it.

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#132263 - 2006-08-31 12:17 AM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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updated the suggestions list.
did I miss something?

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#132264 - 2006-08-31 07:17 AM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions
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cleaned up the list even more. and added multithreading request.
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#214065 - 2022-03-22 03:00 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions [Re: Les]
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As a suggestion I would like to see @ADDRESS independent from the Netbios interface.
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#214124 - 2022-05-02 02:20 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions [Re: Henriques]
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I'm going to resurrect a request for an On-Error process or more detailed (if possible) error information.

Specific case in point that I experience regularly:
  • Tokenized scripts, about 12K in size with about 35-40 UDFs.
  • Runs properly on tens of thousands of computers daily (about 90K computers, 80% Windows Workstations run this command).
  • ONE agent on ONE day throws a "Missing ')'" or "missing argument" error on a line that isn't bad and is in a block that runs every day, not only under an odd condition. Some computers will throw this error repeatedly for a brief time, but it rarely lasts for more than a few days, making troubleshooting or even identification of the conditions difficult.
Several of these events will occur when you run a complex tokenized script with a different (newer) version of Kix32, so we specifically rename Kix32.exe and use a bat file (or internal code) to specifically invoke our renamed copy, which should eliminate that condition.

If an error handler is created, I would be able to dump vars from Main() and globals, and ideally - call a built-in Kix function to dump the var data from a function that was active when the error fired even if I had to add extra logic to my functions. An @ERRLINE and @ERRFUNC macro would be helpful.

Could this result in sloppy code? Possibly, but would there be any more than we already see?

Also - noticed the SKix32.exe Kix as a service request in the original post.. Um yeah! I have close to 30 scripts that run as system services via NSSM.EXE (used to use SrvAny).
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#214127 - 2022-05-07 10:34 PM Re: Current Suggestions / Requests discussions [Re: Glenn Barnas]
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What about possible bit rot for anything local on the system?

What about Windows Defender or other security software that might temporarily step on the process and cause a small meta-data mismatch in memory or disk?

What about RAM itself on the system? It could possibly have intermittent read/write issues

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