Deploying utilities with RES Custom Ressources

Even though some of us have all the fun of working on a daily basis with PowerFuse, we must not forget the folks who are new to this technology. This artice will show how to take ordinary utilities and use them within the PowerFuse environment. Using utilities is always a necessity, as eventhough PowerFuse does alot, there will always be specific conditions which may warrant extra tools…

For our example I have chosen a free utility called Hstart, which is quite usefull as the built-in notify box in PowerFuse  has a few shortcommings which can be annoying.  For example, the PowerFuse app will not be launched until the attached notification has timed out or the user has clicked Ok. So until we get that fixed, this neat’o little tool can help you with that and much more. For example, if you need to run a something hidden, it can help you do just that. Here to the right is a screenshot of the utility’s options (click all graphics to enlarge).

To deploy and use it, here’s a suggestion.  Put the hstart.exe into your Custom Resources in the PowerFuse console. That way the utility will be distributed to all your PowerFuse enabled computers. This is done in the background by the RES Service running on all the PowerFuse computers, so this will happen no matter if a user is logged in or not. This is where you would do it:

Once uploaded, you can refer anywhere in the PowerFuse environment to the utility’s commandline as %rescustomresources%\folder path in the console\yourfile. In my case above it would look like this:

%rescustomresources%\RESutils\hstart.exe (note: Hstart is not made by RES, it’s just me being lazy not creating a dedicated folder :-) Anyway, the cool thing is that you this way don’t have to worry about distributing the utility, nor the absolute target path to where it’s located.

You can download the Hstart utility here

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