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• Finding SMS Packages without a specific sharename defined on DPs

  I hate it when I am troubleshooting software distribution issues and the package is configured to deploy to the distribution points in the SMSPKG folder... Posted Nov 14 2005, 01:50 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS

• Improvements to SMS Group/Collection creation HTA

  I posted a while back about a little HTA that I was working on to help automate the creation of groups in AD and the creation of Collections that are tied... Posted Oct 27 2005, 02:09 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS

• Script to find SMS Packages with bad Source Paths

  Another article on a new script I wrote. This one is quick and simple. It will identify SMS Packages that have a source path set to a folder that doesn... Posted Oct 24 2005, 04:57 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS

• Utility to build Groups and Collections for SMS

  I posted a while back on this but I have a production version done now. This utility is really handy for creating groups that you can tie to SMS Collections... Posted Oct 05 2005, 03:57 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS, Active Directory

• Fun with HTAs

  I do a ton of vbs/shell scripting and dabble in HTML every once in a while when I need to but I've never gotten around to writing an HTA until recently... Posted Sep 14 2005, 09:58 AM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS, Active Directory

• Finding unconfigured sites/subnets in Active Directory

  Here's a script that I wrote for my current client that parses the Netlogon.logs on every DC to determine if any clients have logged onto AD that weren... Posted Aug 08 2005, 03:32 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, Active Directory

• Keeping the Outlook icon off of the desktop

  We needed to remove the Outlook shortcut from the desktop at my current client because they use Lotus Notes. Unfortunately the Outlook shortcut isn't a... Posted Aug 05 2005, 10:21 AM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, Outlook

• Using SMS to gather NAV pattern file information

  I threw together an article detailing how you can use a fairly simple vbs script to create a MIF file that will let you use SMS to gather inventory information... Posted Aug 04 2005, 07:01 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS

• Clean up your vbs code with functions and subroutines

  Ok, I've been going through a bunch of vbs scripts that a previous consultant at my current client wrote. Most of the scripts actually work fairly well... Posted Aug 04 2005, 02:40 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript