Deleting computers from SMS 2003 (and perhaps SCCM 2007), with a script.
DaleBelow is a script which will delete a list of computers from SMS 2003. And quite possibly SCCM 2007 as well (not tested). It was originally taken from the SMS…
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My, hasn’t storage capacity changed over the years.
I’ve talked about working with IBM Mainframes before. I saw this picture over at Alfred Thompson’s blog, and it brought back some memories. Westpac Bank losing a whole data centre…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – March 2010
Five Pervasive Myths About Older Software Developers I recently celebrated my 40th birthday. A friend joked to me, “Hey, guess that means you’re too old to program anymore!” I laughed…
Our SMS 2003 Server had a problem today.
And the expensive corporate system uptime management box missed the problem entirely. The “Offersum.inbox” had over 6000 unprocessed records, and was growing at a rate of 13 records a minute. …
And here’s the PowerShell: Pinging a computer script
The first thing you might notice is that the PowerShell version is a bit shorter. 3 lines of VBscript code, compared to 1 line of PowerShell script. That is, 1…
YouTube: What Have The Unions Ever Done For Us?
Oh, it’s a rip-off of the Monty Python Life of Brian scene “What have the Romans ever done for us?”, but I still like it. https://youtu.be/vl1gdAheKDQ
VBscript: "Pinging" a computer.
If you looked at yesterday’s post, carefully I’ll admit as WordPress loves to mangle the display of <CODE>; you might have noticed that I check to see if a computer…
PowerShell: Reboot remote computers
It looks like it’s going to be a week of scripting blog posts. Today’s script is used to reboot a list of remote computers. Sometimes, when deploying security patches, the…
PowerShell: count of files in a directory
With PowerShell, I needed to get a count of files in a particular directory. This is what I came up with. # # Get a count of files in a…