Chapter 20. Putting It All Together: Your First WMI/ADSI Script

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It's time to leverage what you've learned about ADSI and WMI scripting. In this chapter, I'll walk you through the entire design and creation process for a new script. In addition to demonstrating a useful new purpose for WMI and ADSI, this chapter will help strengthen your script design skills.

By now, you should have a good idea of what WMI and ADSI can do for you. In this chapter, I'll walk you through the complete design process for an entirely new script. This time, I'll use both WMI and ADSI in the same script. The script's job will be to check in on every computer in an Active Directory or NT domain and query some information about its operating systems. I want the script to output this information to a text file on a file server. The information I want to collect includes operating system version, service pack level, number of processors in the machine, maximum physical memory in the machine, and so forth. This is a useful way to quickly inventory a network and see what machines might need to be upgraded before deploying a new application, or to see what machines don't have the latest service pack applied.