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Sunday, April 06, 2008 6:52 PM

A hardware inventory extension for HALs

Summary: here's a technique for collecting details about the HAL used by your computers. Do you need to know which Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) your clients are using? For example, you may wish...
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Monday, March 17, 2008 3:34 PM

ConfigMgr SDK released!

Summary: The ConfigMgr software development kit is finally released to a public URL. Actually, it hasn't been hard to get ahold of the SDK (via the Connect (beta) program). But that can be a bit of...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:55 PM

A hardware inventory extension for ActiveX controls

Summary: here's a technique for collecting details about ActiveX controls on your computers. Do you have a need to inventory the ActiveX controls on your computers? Collecting details about ActiveX...
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Monday, January 28, 2008 7:56 PM

E-mailing from script

Summary: scripts can analyze your systems in powerful and flexible ways, producing detailed and well-formatted results. Sometimes it's handy to e-mail those results to people. It's time to finish...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 6:55 PM

Analyzing a lot of logs

Summary: SMS and ConfigMgr, and possibly other systems, make a lot of logs available in case you have to troubleshoot a tricky problem. If you need to look at some of those logs on a lot of clients or...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:46 PM

How you can enhance a script that creates graphs

Summary: in a recent posting I detailed how I create graphs from scripts. This quick posting illustrates how you can expand on that subroutine. That recent posting on creating graphs is part of a series...
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Monday, January 21, 2008 8:44 PM

Creating graphs from script

Summary: creating graphs from your scripts is an especially powerful way to enhance your automatically-produced reports. Today we continue our series on producing complex computer management client health...
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Monday, January 14, 2008 8:01 PM

Creating HTML reports from script

Summary: creating HTML-based reports from scripts is surprisingly easy, allowing you to provide highly flexible, very attractive reports to internal customers. Today we continue our series on producing...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:53 PM

Saving client health (or other) data to a SQL Server

Summary: most computer management specialists write and run SQL queries, but not many save data for later use. Yet saved data can allow you to do historic comparisons, trending, complex dataset queries...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:21 PM

An almost forgotten computer administration art: Windows shell scripting - with thanks to Levi Stevens

Summary: computer management requires many skills, including what I would call computer administration skills. Amongst those is shell scripting. It's important to keep an eye open to the most recent...
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:32 PM

Deleting SMS Objects (collections, etc.) via Script

Summary: computer management done on any significant scale and long enough will create lots of objects that need to be cleaned up. Manually doing that cleanup would be prohibitively laborious and tedious...
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