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Network Check Script

I was in a meeting the other day and the help desk was talking about having users that called in with a problem. Several of the problems had to due with network connectivity. There solution was to have an end user ping the different servers and see if they got a response, I said why not create a script that would do all the work for the end user and take out the human error part. They liked that idea but didn’t want to give the user to much info. So the solution was to come up with 2 scripts. One that would give the following

Username
PC Name
Ip Address
Check connection with the following

Domain Controller (gets users logon server from the system)
Internet (Checks google.com)
Exchange (Checks the primary Exchange server)
User share (in this case H drive)

The second Script does the following if more info is needed:

Username
PC Name
Domain Name
Ip Address
Subnet
Network card information
DNS Search order
Wins

Primary server
Secondary server

Check connection with the following

Domain Controller (gets users logon server from the system)
Internet (Checks google.com)
Exchange (Checks the primary Exchange server)
User share (in this case H drive)

All connected shared drives
All connected printers

Hope someone else finds these handy. Make sure you have the Exchange server to your server and change the shared drive to the drive letter you want to track. Enjoy.