BB PowerFuse
This is where you will find all the interesting and spooky building blocks for PowerFuse which people around here have created and shared. If you have something to share, please email it, or post it as a comment. A word of warning though. As it is common knowledge, quality of engineering vary. Inherently so will quality of buildingblocks. By downloading you promise to:
- ALWAYS test foreign (i.e. not made by yourself) buildingblocks. It is recommended that you build an empty PowerFuse database, import things there and test them out.
- NEVER import unknown buildingblocks into a production environment.
In other words, for you few legal sticklers out there, RESguru will assume no liability what so ever. That was the serious bit, now on to the fun stuff. Below you’ll find all the PowerFuse buildingblocks available on this site. Newest buildingblocks are always on top. Click on the RAR file logo’s below to download the files.
Security Authorizations Placeholder Applications
(Added Apr 9th 2010) This buildinblock contains definitions of several empty managed applications. The purpose of these is to act as placeholders for security authorizations, which would otherwise be jumbled together in the Global Authorized Files list. See Technote RG026 for more information.
WinXP and Win7 ControlPanels
(Added Apr 9th 2010) This archive contains 3 buildingblocks with all control panel applets for Windows XP and Windows 7. A third archive contains some nice extras which may come in handy too. For the full story have a look at Technote article RG025 for further information.
PwrGate.EXE Applications
(Added Mar 5th 2010) This buildingblock contains definitions of 10 applications and panels which are accessible through pwrgate.exe. These include User Installed Applications, Restore UserSettings Wizard, Logoff, Printing Preferences, WorkSpace Preferences, PowerFuse Management Console, Access Management Console, Refresh Workspace, Run and PowerHelp. See article RG024 for further information on this Buildingblock.
Reset Applications to Factory settings
(Added Jan 16th 2010) With this buildingblock you will be able to reset one, many or all applications to which you have assigned PowerLaunch setings on launch. The idea is to give the user a reset button in his start menu, which will then “selfheal” the application(s). See RG020 for further information.
Internet Explorer with User Preferences and PowerLaunch
(Added Feb 26th 2009) This buildingblock was part of an article describing how you can make PowerLaunch settings and UserPreferences work together. The BB contains a demo definition of a IE configured for use in a mandatory profile environment. Note: You will need to change the Access Control on each application PowerLaunch setting to match your own domain. The original article can be read here
Best Practices User Registry settings.
(Added Feb 21st 2009) This is another buildingblock which will help you speed up initial PowerFuse deployment by implementing some of the most common HKCU registry settings. For more information, see this posting.
Best Practices Global authorizations.
(Added Feb 20th 2009) This buildingblock will help you get from pilot to production much faster, by implementing some best practices for security authorizations. The buildingblock contains a set of Global Authorized files which will enable the most common authorisations for Windows XP and VMware workstation. For more information, see this posting.
Workspace Extender demo applications
There are four applications defined inside this buildingblock, which will help you try out or demonstrate the value of the RES Workspace Extender. There is a technote available here, which covers the contens and usage of the buildingblock.
Search capability for the RES Shell start menu
This buildingblock will allow you to implement the Search function on the start menu of the native RES Shell in PowerFuse, as this is stripped out per default. Be sure to check the associated posting here
Laptop Homedirectory Management
The laptop Homedirectory Management building block will help you setup an mixed environment with laptops, where you need to map the same homedrive, no matter if the user is offline or online. The module contains the apps, external tasks, powerzones etc. to make this work. There is a technote for this module available here.
Desktop Shortcut Lockdown
This buildingblock contains all the items requred to set up a locked down desktop, allowing the users only to place shortcuts (*.lnk and *.url) on the PowerFuse controlled Explorer desktop. There is a technote about this buildingblock to be found here
RESguru | 
2009/01/09 05:35
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