March 2016 – ConfigurationSapien.com

Distribute Adobe Creative Cloud Package with SCCM 2012 With Device License

So if you have had to ever do this you will first have to deal with the legal side of the software. With adobe you can order a Device or User license.

User licences are the easiest to deal with because you don’t really manage it other than give a user the license.

With a device license however we need to specifically create a package using Adobe’s Creative Cloud Packager by which we end up downloading the software we want ie: Premier,Photoshop,etc. And then we can create an MSI file from that to distribute in SCCM 2012.

So check it out I have a video for this:)

-Sorry for the Blurred parts, for security purposes

-If there are questions, post in the comments and I’ll reply.

Download Creative Cloud Packager to local HD
Run CC Packager and select the Option to create a package for Teams and Educational licenses(Otherwise you won’t get the Device License Option)
Use the program to download and create a package of the Adobe programs you want
Import it into SCCM as an application
Distribute to your Device Collection as needed. The applications should afterwards run without requiring the device to sign into the Cloud

Can you Recover Data after Re-imaging?

So I have re-imaged a computer and it has been several weeks. I have already re-provisioned the computer and another user has been writing to it obviously. The simple answer on this one is the chances are incredibly slim. Although after speaking with a Kroll Ontrack recovery rep they did say something can still be recovered but highly unlikely it would be what we were looking for. I also had memory of using FTK imager for file investigations. That ended up being far to pricey just to recover data although their product is great for finding lost data or hidden data; A post for another time on FTK..

I tried the free program Recova to see what thatmight unveil and it picked up some deleted PDF files but even the ones it deemed were in excellent condition were too damaged to work in Adobe Acrobat. And of course its advanced feature will at least let you filter through pictures,files,documents etc.. I will say it was good only for recovering images since it seemed to keep them intact. But again only the ones deemed excellent(denoted by the green circles)

Download I tried from Recova at time of post: http://filehippo.com/download_recuva/

Nonetheless in a situation involving a Hard disk data recovery your best bet is to send it to a professional company and even that isn’t a guarantee but if the data is that important maybe it’s worth the cost. A managerial decision to be made.

And of Course another lesson in Backup. Always backup your information. In this case we had the user wait forever to tell us what was needed and with a backup policy that doesn’t include local hard drives it was close to impossible. You move on and leave it in the past.

Downloading Youtube Videos Instead of Streaming on Phone

So there are several programs to use for this but my favorite has become “Youtube-dl” It’s a simple command line program you can easily use for scripting and more. But simply its just simple to use and straightforward no gui, just type in the commands on your command line and your set!

It involves basically taking the Share URL for the video or Playlist you want and then downloading it to your working directory from the CMD prompt. That’s it we just use CMD for this bad boy.

Here are my notes on the basic uses. I basically just use it to download playlists to play on my phone using my Home internet connection. This saves my phone’s preciously expensive High Speed data!

USING youtube-dl in Powershell
-install python
-Download youtube-dl
-Download the .exe file for windows and create a folder for it in your Program Files C:\program files\youtube-dl
-Now add it to the environemental path for use in powershell and cmd

Go to>Start Menu > Right Click “Computer” >Properties> Advanced System Properties > Environmental Variables button at bottom > Under “System Variables” go to the PATH variable
Edit and by adding a “;” to the end enter your path C:\program files\youtube-dl

-Start Powershell or CMD.exe(just type them into the start menu search) and use it as any program you would call with the command “youtube-dl” and add any arguments after see below for simple practical uses
-Keep in mind a video downloads to the current working directory displayed in your CMD prompt(Just open file explorer and browse there)

TO DOWNLOAD A VIDEO IN CMD/POWERSHELL

youtube-dl <url from youtube to video>

-Files are downloaded to the working directory.

DOWNLOAD A YOUTUBE PLAYLIST

youtube-dl -cit <url of playlist>

HOW TO GET URL OF A PLAYLIST
-Go to the Youtube channel click on the play list (not play all) and you should see a “share” button for the play list for which you can download.
ie: the share button on this page will generate the playlist url: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkHsKoi6eZnzJl1qTzmvBwTxrSJW4D2Jj

ERROR READING URL
-You had to update before using powershell in admin mode

youtube-dl -U