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Deprecated - VMWare have release an official checker and there is a better script at http://virtu-al.net

This is a script I wrote to check vSphere 5 vRAM compliance.

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A while back I had a support case open with MS about some scripting in winPE. In order to debug the problem we wanted to see what variables were declared & what their values were. The support tech came up with the attachted script, I never got round to adding it to my scripts folder, so I ran it by opening a command shell in winPE (F8) then “net use Z: \\<mycomputer>\c$\users\<username>\desktop\”. Then I ran the script with “cscript.exe SCCMVarDump.vbs” a file is created in the same location as the script.

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Updated: 2011-08-18

This is the next evolution in the warranty info fight, Dell keep changing their site which is rather frustrating. I have re-written the Warranty Info Scripts in powershell as in my opinion the code is a lot cleaner and more manageable, I’ve tweaked the MOF edit required to read this.

One major change to the script is that I have added support for HP systems, now I must stress I only have one or two of these, both are out of warranty and only had base warranties so something may have been missed / may not work as expected. You can either fix it and let me know the changes you make or let me know, via the contact page, the tag of one of your systems and I will look at it when I get a chance.

If you use any other version of the script from my site you will need to update sms.mof as the reports have changed.

I am quite shameless so if you find this useful feel free to click on donate and well, donate. :D

What info do you get?

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Yet another role added to my Job description, Now I am managing our Virtual Servers. So true to form I’ve dived headfirst into powershell / powercli to see what I can do. Some of the posts coming up on this will likely be similar to others around the web as I reinvent the wheel while I learn. But you never know one of you might find me 1st or I might do it in a way that suits you better.

First up is a simple script to read data from an xml file and then update custom attributes on the vmhosts.

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A quick Report to return all of the computers, the OU they are in and the last time they had  a Hardware scan.

First we create a temporary table to hold the 1st pass results, then we query that table looking for the longest OU for each computer ( this way we only get 1 record per computer returned, otherwise each level of the OU a computer is a member of will be returned)

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This is just a quick one, if you have dell machines (not sure if other manufacturers do it) but one of the BIOS options is ASSET TAG. Now this does not, as you would expect, appear in Win32_BIOS, instead it appears under Win32_SystemEnclosure.

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Those of us that installed FEP 2010 are no doubt annoyed that we cannot see the details of the queries used by SCCM to populate the FEP created collections.

The following will require acess to the SQL instance that SCCM uses as the querys are to be executed driectly on that instance.

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It’s been a while since I posted anything, but I’ve been really busy at home and in work.

Although I have beening using OSD for a while it hasn’t been completely automated, things like timezone, keyboard locale etc still need to be changed by an administrator after a rebuild. Now we have sites in America, UK, Europe and Japan, so I need to account for them in my task sequence. I will admit here that I had a bit of trouble with getting the script to work so I did get some help from MS (they added 2 lines of code to the script and 1 task sequence event).

There are 2 parts to this, 1st is the vbscript to detect and set the location and then some task sequence events to act on the variables we set.

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When I was building our SCCM environment I decided it would be a good time to clean up WSUS & FCS and bring them under the new system.

The problem I ran into was “How do I repoint FCS?” without having to uninstall and reinstall it on every machine.

The solution, a bit of VB script based on the information here: http://blogs.technet.com/fcsnerds/archive/2008/11/12/changing-the-management-group-to-which-an-fcs-client-reports.aspx

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This is a perl script to normalize video file names for TV series, it will run under windows or linux.

Note: I have tested this and do use it however I may have missed something or there may be a bug I have not encountered, I would advise backing up the files to be renamed before running the script and then verify that it has worked as expected. If so delete the backups if not please leave a comment detailing what has happened and I’ll try to fix it asap.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible if this causes WWIII or nukes your computer, use at your own risk.

Supported naming schemes

Name

• Single
• Double.1
• Double 2
• Double-3
• Double_4

Season-Episode

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