Getting hardware information from computers around the office?
Quote:
> Is there a way to extract the hardware information from all my user's
> computers with a script? To find out processor speed, ram, etc. I would
> rather log all this information somehow by computername, rather than have to
> go around to 200+ computers and check one by one.
Hi
For HW inventory to a csv file using WMI from VBScript (WMI comes default with
WinME, Win2k and WinXP), in the quickFIND field, search for:
poor mans sms
at Win32 Scripting [Clarence Washington]
http://cwashington.netreach.net
for a good example of this written by Steve Pyatt.
Here is another one:
Using WMI for Inventory Management
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/1475601
"A WSH script using VBScript is explained. The script uses
WMI to query a computer for some predetermined information.
The acquired information is written to a database using ADO."
To make a loop that handles all the computers in the domain, there exists
several ways to do this. See this article for more on this:
Subject: Script that remotely moves local users from Administrators to Power
Users group
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.scripting.wsh, microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript,
microsoft.public.adsi.general
Date: 2003-02-18 20:22:06 PST
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E530599.8EF9AA2C%40hydro.com
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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter
