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cool thanks for looking yes its a very very useful script indeed and i have learnt loads from just reading through it and experimenting unfortunatly im not good with arrays and its what (i assume) i need to implement software audits within this script. so if you could help me roguespear i would be very grateful

Hi all, i have a .vbs script that can audit an ip range and collect data. it collects such things as the operating system, RAM etc. basically i want to add in another WMI called win32_SoftwareFeature and use the value "ProductName" to tell me what software is installed on the machine the .vbs script exports what it finds to an excel file i have been trying to do this almost all day and failed miserably lol please i know someone will find this a walk in the park, can anyone help me add this in? below is a link to the script http://www.megaworm.com/images/./data/media/4/auditor.zip many thanks

thanks ill try updating the scripting engine but as you say it may just not be possible. thank you very much for your replies

Hi all, i have been playing around in xp/2003 with wmic and can see how very very powerful it is, it lead me to try wmi in 2000 however there is no command line for it which is making it difficult. can anyone tell me how to do the following and how they got the information to do it please?: i need to view (by running a script) on a local or remote pc the number of memory slots, which ones are occupied and how much memory is in each thanks for reading this guys i know one of you will know EDIT: iv just been looking and experimenting and found scriptomatic, it has a big list of all the win32_*** wmi's classes i still fail to find one that displays the memory banks correctly, i thought i had it with win32_physicalmemory but that wasnt displaying correctly, can anyone help me please? im so close to getting this! thanks

what group policy settings are you applying to the users?

EDIT: please delete this thread sorry!

they only have around 10 workstations so its no problem, just the director there was "under the impression" that office updates itself and to keep him sweet i was gonna find a way to make this so. wsus is definatly the best option as iv seen it work wonders at a client with about 100 pc's only one had a problem, but in this case its just not practical. thanks for the help i will definatly check out technet

thanks, i was afraid someone was going to say that lol the paticular client im looking at this for doesnt have a spare server for wsus so thats not an option, guess they will have to put up with manual updates thank you for your time EDIT: just had a thought does anyone have a list of all of the office 2003 updates that have been released? thanks again

Hi all, does anybody know if its possible to automatically update office through group policy? as far as i know only windows automatic updates can be set via group policy thanks

wow thank you ever so much guys im going to have to try and get my head around these cos i really want to move onto vbs scripting

couldnt you make a reg file that runs on login that deletes the registry key and then re-creates it?, this way it will be blank

open command prompt and type ping <ip of router> -n 100 > c:\ping.txt this will ping the router 100 times, and export it to a text file now upgrade the firmware and open command prompt and type ping <ip of router> -n 100 > c:\ping2.txt now compare the contents of the files and see if there is a difference thanks

hello, i can export the contents of a drive with batch scripting using > dir /B for bare heading format but i have a lot of drives and have to create a seperate script for each drive so my question is this.. how can i make a .vbs script (or other) to check for a drive and if it exists export its contents to a text file in bare format? thank you for your time

iv just added UnattendSwitch = Yes to the file, anyone think this will solve it? as by the sound of it from reading the .chm file i think it will....

iv just checked in my .sif file and i already have that part in there... btw im using RIS would this make any difference at all? heres my .sif file........... ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" floppyless="1" OriSrc="\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%" OriTyp="4" LocalSourceOnCD=1 [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off fax=off [Display] BitsPerPel=16 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 Vrefresh=60 [SetupData] OsLoadOptions="/noguiboot /fastdetect" SetupSourceDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH %" [Unattended] DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore nonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes OemPnPDriversPath= TargetPath=\WINDOWS FileSystem=* NtUpgrade=No OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade=No CrashDumpSetting=0 Hibernation=No WaitForReboot=No [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="*" EncryptedAdminPassword=no OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductID=xx FullName="-" OrgName="-" ComputerName=x [TapiLocation] CountryCode=44 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=MSHOME [OSChooser] Description="WinXP SP2 - Custom" Help="This will install Windows XP SP2." LaunchFile="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com" ImageType=Flat [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

thanks a lot for the replies

also with office i think it has to be the enterprise edition to be deployed via group policy, which needs to have (as chilli said) a .mst to answer the questions... try something small first and see if you can get that working, also from experience i think software deployment via computer configuration works slightly better, but thats just my opinion

hi all just a quick question, one for the RIS Gurus if i have a machine with a HDD that has 2 partitons lets says C: and D: will booting from a RIS server delete both partitions and then install windows? or will it just format the c: partition and leave the D: intact? thank you

thank you so much ironside! i never would have tried that as i thought it ment the actual screen that says "welcome" on it lol thanks again

there is something called WSUS server, that will do what you want

thanks OtherworldBob thats all i needed to know ill have a look around and see if i can find out how to put it into the .sif file thanks again

does anyone know what i mean by this screen? surely it annoys you guys as well, lol

cool, nice idea

hi guys, does anyone know how to get rid of the screen that first comes up once you have installed xp? the one that asks for a user name (it gives a list of about 5 boxes for you to enter user names in) sorry i dont know its real name but i wish i could just get rid of this screen/sequence of screens altogether as i only end up deleting that user i create anyway, thanks for any input on this

thanks for that link fizban2 good read!