BB Wisdom
This is where you will find all the interesting and spooky building blocks for Wisdom 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 database, import things there and test them out.
- NEVER import unknown buildingblocks into a production environment.
In other words, for those 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 Wisdom buildingblocks available on this site. Click on the RAR icons below to download the files. Newest downloads are at the top.
PowerFuse StealthMode Deployment
(Aug 21st 2010) This module will deploy RES PowerFuse 2010, optionally in StealthMode, so the user will not notice that the software has been rolled on to his computer. The concept is covered in Article RG02A. Note, you will have to download and replace a couple of dummy resources inside the module with RES Software binaries, as I can’t distribute them here.
Stop an Exchange Server 2003 nicely
(May 8th 2010) This service module is used in demo/lab/training environments, where you often see an exchange server lobbed on top of a domain controller. If you do this, it will usually take a very long time (often +20 minutes) to shut down the server, as exchange will sit around waiting for some parts of the domaincontroller which are already shut down (at least that’s what the men in the nice white coats tell me..) aaanyway, here’s a shutdown module to help you with this
DBA Admin Modules
(May 8th 2010) Here’s a couple of quickies, which may help you out dealing with database stuff. The archive contains two modules which respectively will query the size of a target database and perform a shrink operation on it. Although this is a safe , don’t run these modules in production environments without prior test.
PowerFuse 2010 Desktop Sampler
(May 8th 2010) This buildingblock will allow you to install the RES PowerFuse desktop sampler into your Windows environement, using Wisdom for the deployment. As always all installation parameters have been put into module parameters, which you will be prompted for during import This module will let you specify the samplepath, expiredays and the delay parameters. For more information about the desktop sampler, check the online help in the PowerFuse console.
Citrix XenApp 4.5 Installation
(Added Apr 27th 2010) This buildingblock was shared by Brian Casselman and posted in the RESug forums. This buildingblock is an example on how to install XenApp 4.5 using RES Wisdom. Note: The binaries (MSI files) have for legal reasons been stripped out of the buildingblock. You will have to add these yourself from your own XenApp media.
Search for Dumpfiles and send email alert
(Added Mar 26th 2010) This buildingblock was posted by Alain Assaf over in the RESug forums. As the title states, this wisdom buildinblock will let you search for .dmp files, collect them centrally and will send you an email alert. The buildingblock was highligted in this article.
.Net Framework 3 BuildingBlock (51MB)
(Added Jan 24th 2010) Download this buildingblock for Wisdom to install .Net Framework 3. This has many applications, but if you are in the EAP program, testing Orchestration at the moment, you will most likely find this particular BB very handy. Thanks to Eddie R. for sharing.
Under-Construction logon wallpaper.
(Added Jan 23th 2010) This Wisdom BB was shared by Patrik Kaak on the RESug Forum. Patrik writes: “This BB contains two modules. The first module (under contruction) places a background in the windows folder of the client. Then it modifies the registry to place this background on the logon screen and reboots to show the screen. The second module (under contruction finished) places the None value back on the logonscreen, so it defaults back to the normal blank screen at Windows logon.” For further details, go read the rest of Patrik’s posting here.
ICA-RDP (XenApp) permissions
(Added Jan 23th 2010) This Wisdom BB was shared by Patrik Kaak on the RESug Forum. Patrik writes: “When we install XenApp at customers, we mostly use a special shadowgroup for the supportdesk who do not belong to domain administrators. This gave us the problem that we had to manually add the group to the Terminal Server Configuration- ICA-RDP settings… For further details, go read the rest of Patrik’s posting here.
Set Citrix ICA idle time
(Added Jan 16th 2010) This BB was shared by Niels over at the RESug Forum. Niels writes: “Did you ever have the need to change the idle time on your Citrix sessions, so a certain user could run a job, which takes more time then the “default” time out session time? Every month’s end we had to change the session time-out. We used to do this manually by changing the GPO settings. But now we have created two Wisdom jobs for this task, one to set the time out to 16 hours and one to set it back to 8 hours.
Setup Full Memory Dump on all Windows OS types
(Added Jan 16th 2010) This BB was shared by DepthStrike over at the RESug Forum. The purpose of this is to roll out the registry keys for setting a full memorydump if a BSOD occurs. The module utilizes conditions so that it sets the right keys for the found OS. It works universally for W2000, WinXP, Vista, Win7, Win2003, Win2008. It is usefull if you need to set this on a large amount of machines That’s why I’ve made this module “universal” for Windows Operating Systems. Thanks for sharing!
Remove First-time Setup stuff
(Added Jan 4th 2010) This module will help you remove the StubPath entries in the HKLM which new users get hit by when they log in to a machine for the first time. Application specific settings can be applied nicely through PowerFuse anyway, so getting rid of this can help save you login time. See this article for further info.
AD User/Group creation
(Added June 14th 2009) Over in the RESug forum, Eddie posted this buildingblock for Wisdom, which will help you create groups in AD using RES Wisdom. Be sure to read the full posting here. Also, remember to configure a AD connector in Wisdom before you can use this functionality.
Employee Provisioning
(Added May 14th 2009) This buildingblock contains an example Wisdom Run Book for creation of users, exchange mailboxes and home directories. When scheduled the runbook will either accept manual input of employee data or obtain it through a CSV file.
PowerTrace Purifier
(Added March 26th 2009) The purpose of this module is to help you get rid of specific unwanted records in PowerTrace and Webtrace logs. When running the module against the SQL server where you have your PowerFuse datastore, it will ask you for a searchstring. If you enter, say “somesite.com”, all records of visits to this site will be removed permanently.
PowerFuse Tracing/Debugging Configuration
This module will configure the Trace feature (debugging) on the PowerFuse enabled target machine(s). You can chose via module parameters where the log file should be placed, if you want verbose loggging. This module will in addition bounce the service and grab a copy of the current logfile.
PowerTrace Cleanup modules
This is a collection of 4 Wisdom modules which all are related to cleaning up the PowerTrace tables. There are modules for: Check data base size, Refresh PowerFuse sessions, Drop the PowerTrace tables, and finally a module to Shrink a database. It is heavily recommended that you, read through the article here.
Super Security Audit (21MB).
With this module you will quickly get an overview of any outstanding security issues, related to missing updates, vunerabilities etc. This module does WGA checking and MBSA analysis on both 32 and 64 bit machines. Read more about the module in this posting.
Add a computer to the domain
(Added Feb 20th 2009) This module simply enters a computer into a domain, but also modifies the DefaultDomain registry key, so the user logging on afterwards does not have to change the domain dropdown. The module should need no editing at all. Read more about it here.
Configure Mandatory Profile Path
(Added Feb 13th 2009) This buildingblock will help you configure an environment variable which will point to the correct local path of a mandatory profile for the users. See this posting about the buildingblock before downloading it.
NTFRS Repair
(Added Feb 13th 2009) This BuildingBlock will help you fix problems with NTFRS (NT File Replication Service), by allowing you automatically to perform a [non]authoriative restore on this subsystem according to MS KB Article 290762
PowerFuse Log Groomer
(Added Feb 1st 2009) This BuildingBlock will allow you to delete specific logs in the PowerFuse database. Warning! Buildingblock messes with your PowerFuse datastore. Do NOT use in production environment. For demonstration purposes only. Read the associated technote here before you download.
Best Practices for Servers and Workstations
(Added Jan 15th 2009) This file contains two buildingblocks which contains some nice registry fixes picked up along the way, which can make things somewhat easier for you. The Reghacks in these buildingblocks is just collections of relevant stuff that’s been googled over time. Slice and dice the modules as you like. See the included PDF for details.
RESguru | 
2009/01/11 12:35
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