First things first, grab the Skype business version from the Skype business site. This has no adverts and is an MSI file for simple deployment. You’ll probably want my Skype Transform which will remove the desktop shortcut and prevent Skype from auto starting with windows. You can now deploy Skype in your prefered way (Group [...]

So, you want to deploy VS2008 Express? – I did (We use it in our testing VMs). 1: Download the offline installer First things first, get the offline installer for Visual Studio 2008 Express. 2: Extract the files from the ISO Grab whichever edition you want to deploy from the ISO you’ve just downloaded (i’m [...]

This guide focuses on VS2005 Express Edition with advanced services, though this applies to any version of SQL2005. The first thing you’ll need to do is copy the install files to your distribution share via the Deployment Workbench. Be sure to choose a directory structure without spaces as this seems to cause problems during setup. [...]