October 2007 - Posts

Dudeworks' Inventory Manager 2007

There may soon be no more reason for a mofmaster.  I may need to give up the coolest email address I've ever had.  Once people see the ease of use of http://www.dudeworks.com 's new product, Inventory Manager 2007 (for both ConfigMgr 2007 & SMS 2003); I'll be out of job in no time.

Check it out.  Take any default installation of SMS, install Inventory Manager on the Primary Central server, and add custom reg keys, enable default classes, and add any WMI class/instance in a few mouse clicks.  Done.  What used to take hours of checking wbemtest or WMI object browser; verifying MOF file syntax, now can take just a few minutes.  As a bonus, it is almost impossible to mess up.  Although I'm sure someone, somehow, will find a way to do so--there's always some angle no one ever thought of that'll break it!  We are an enterprising bunch.

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Connection Strings for vbscript

I'm in a training class this week for scripting, and one of the web sites they mentioned was www.connectionstrings.com .  There's been plenty of times when I've searched the 'net (and been marginally successful) in finding the right syntax to create a connection to a database (or excel, or ad or...) via vbscript.  And here someone has kindly put examples all in one place. 

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Wii - last on the bandwagon

My nephew really wanted a Wii for his birthday; and although he had enough $ from summer jobs and birthday gifts, they are still very difficult to get.  According to the Sunday paper, the local electronics store was going to have "at least 10" available Sunday.  Unfortunately both my sister and brother-in-law had previous, separate commitments Sunday morning, so I was roped in to go and get one.  I arrived at 9:45 (store opens at 10), and was shocked that there were already 12 people waiting outside the store.  Well, it was "at least 10", and 1 of the people in line looked less than 18--so perhaps he was there with his parents.  I stood in line anyway.  A few minutes later, a store employee came out and said they had 11.  Whew! I was afraid I was going to have to tell my nephews that I showed up too late to get one.  (Later my sister said they spent the whole morning talking about that they'd have one when they got home from church.)

So, grabbed extra controllers, bought the system and drove to my sister's house.  My brother-in-law was back, so with his help (which was a good thing--otherwise I'd never have figured out what channels, etc. to set on their entertainment system); we set it up.  And we were able to get through a game of bowling, golf, and baseball before the kids came back and we had to turn over the controllers.

Now, I'm checking google for "highest rated Wii games".  I just might have a new addiction.

 

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