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Monday, November 15, 2010 7:29 PM

Easy scripting of log file parsing

One of my more common needs is to analyze log files (which are really just text files) for recurring issues. If lots of clients have the issue, or some...
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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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