DAMN Don! You reply fast dude, that’s awesome. I bought all your books, actually, just this year back in January. I browse through them when I have the time, but I have tons of projects I work on simultaneously and a new job that I accepted as a Microsoft SCCM Engineer for a company in Oregon and I am currently in Alaska right now, so time is something that I simply don’t have much of at this point. Not to mention I have a second child on the way due on April 4th during the time that I have to prepare for this colossal move back to the Lower 48. So needless to say, it’s nuckin’ futs right now. This is why I use this forum, it’s great. The cool thing is that at least when I buy the books that you and many of your associates have written on PowerShell for Manning Publishing, I can also get the PDF version totally “free” off their website by punching in a few alphanumeric codes that are listed in the cells on the attached paper that accompanies the books. The only problem is that I packed up all my books already and the ONLY PDF that I have not downloaded is, you guessed it, “Learn POWERSHELL TOOLMAKING IN A MONTH OF LUNCHES” that you and Jeffery wrote. I am just trying to get this script done this weekend, if possible, and off my plate.
I will go dig out the book and download the PDF, because I really want to get this done for my current employer before I move my family and I to Oregon.
Basically what I am doing is writing up a script that will find any server throughout AD that is running WSUS. I know I can use the Registry to find the WSUS that is currently being used, but I want to find a server that has WSUS installed, but where WSUS is not being utilized, if that is even possible. I could write up an SCCM SQL report to do this, but the organization consists of 4 domains with trusts, and my SCCM 2007 environment only sees its local domain due to configured boundary limits. We have implemented SCCM 2012 at the enterprise level, but it has yet to bring in all the server assets since it is still a new migration project currently in progress. This is why I am leaning on PowerShell for this.
Does this make any sense to you, or am I just blabbering?
Thanks man