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Guys I am trying to put together an imaging solution, and I have now been asked to provide a method of configuring individual settings. Some of the settings are unique registry settings and some are unique files. My main question is can someone let me know if it is possible to do this using...

Hi there guys I have a perl script that gets some basic system info data, and it has a section that converts a Western Digital Serial Number in Win32_PhysicalMedia in to a readable form. Here is the section of the perl script: foreach my $hdd ( in( $WMIServices->InstancesOf( $Class2 ) ) ) {...

I thought that also but this only returns the volume serial number this is not the actual serial number. I have been lead to beleive that the only way to get the HDD serial number is to use win32_PhysicalMedia it works with some brands of hard drives but not western digital.

Hi there Does anyone know how to use vbscript to retreive the correct serial number of a HDD using WMI. The Script I am using uses Win32_PhyicalMedia and returns a string that is I beleive encrypted. Here is my Code: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService =...

Hi there, I am currently writing a VBScript to pull Hardware and Software information from the multiple WMI Objects. Currently I am looking at adding Information on individual dll files. Some of these need the information from the "Other Version Information" I am just wondering if anyone has...

Hi there Does anyone know how to get Syncronized Folders working with SBS2003? I have set up the users with access to a mapped drive, that they use for their documents, My Documents is not redirected to this folder, as they use My documents for their personal files. Is there a way to add the...

Hi there I have setup a VPN connection to an SBS server, this is a PPTP VPN and I have assigned static IP addresses to the connections via the user management in SBS. The client connects but I am unable to use the VPN any ideas anyone????

I would look at two things, memory and CPU. If you can identify the beep code via dell that will guide you in the right direction.

Does any one know whether it is possible to disable the mute tick box? I want to stop the users muting the volume. I also need to know if there is any way to set default levels? Thanks in advance Ben

Great, thanks for the quick response lgarner. Could anyone expand on the first two as they seem to be the ones with the most cost efficient way of acheiving this.

Hi I run an intranet website, at the moment it runs on 1 server. I have 3 IIS servers locally running IIS 5.0/win2k, I would like to put the site on all 3 servers and have the link (on a server on another site) that points the clients to the site to load balance between them. Does anyone have...

I have a query, does windows 2003 require the preemptive reboots that nt4 needed (for freeing up memory etc), or is it more LINUX like in its stability? I am trying to put together a server room to do list and I wondered if I should keep this in or not???? Cheers Ben

Hi I have 45 workstations on a closed network, I am unable to install HDDTemp on the machines, does anyone have a script for collecting HDD Temperatures. Any help or guidance would be appreciated. Cheers Ben

I t is possible to allocate memory to a specific task, but only if you run 2003 Enterprise server or datacentre server. Here is a link that explains all. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/wsrmfaq.mspx Hope this helps

Just an update, I discovered the answer to my question I created a file with the machine names and saved it to the C:\Temp folder then I used the following script from a Command line: for /f %m in (C:\Temp\MachineNames.txt) do diruse /,M \\%m\DIRECTORYNAME >> c:\temp\Dump.txt Ben