A UK college recently e-mailed me asking for help deploying Visual Basic Express 2008.  Here are the basic steps to extracting an MSI from the 2008 Express ISO. Download the Visual Studio 2008 Express ISO to your local system and mount it using something like MagicDisk. Locate the “VBExpress” directory and copy it somewhere locally. […]

At work I try to use as many free software alternatives as possible, after a bit of hunting I came across an MSI that someone has built for IZArc. The only problem the MSI above is that it’s in French. Here’s a transform (mst) to change the language to English and remove the “What’s new” […]

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 […]