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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Monday, June 04, 2007 11:43 PM

A scripted SMS Trace

Summary: SMS Trace (trace32.exe) is the core tool in every SMS administrator's toolkit. But do you really have time to be watching logs fly by? Why...
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