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Links of the Week
Here's a few links that might be useful to someone... Update for SCCM 2007 for WSUS offline scan catalogs WS08 Security Confg Manager 2007 Scott Lowe on MAP toolkit from TechEd Getting PowerShell on WS08 Core Update for SMS 2003 and R2 for Vista/WS08...
Posted: Jun 18 2008, 05:12 PM by David M. Stein | with no comments
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DCIS 2008-05-15 released: Updated activescan.vbs features
I received quite a bit of feedback on DCIS recently that indicated a few bugs in the activescan.vbs script. I think those are fixed now. At least from what I can verify from my testing. I also decided to outfit activescan.vbs with the ability to accept...
Slightly Off-Topic: DCIS input needed
I'm looking for suggestions for the next version of DCIS . If anyone is looking for something specific (or something in general) please send me some feedback using the Feedback link on the DCIS web site . This refers to both the login script code...
DCIS package updated to 2008-04-07
For those of you faithfully (or even jokingly) using DCIS, I have posted an update which splits the script code from the settings portion. What was once all included in loginscan.vbs is now split into loginscan.vbs and loginscan.ini. Otherwise, nothing...
Posted: Apr 07 2008, 10:58 AM by David M. Stein | with no comments
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We Don't Need No Stinking Version Numbers
I figured that since software vendors can get away with releasing ProductName 2009 while we're still in 2008, I could get away with releasing DCIS 2008-02-08 on 2008-02-06. That's only a jump of two days. Not a full year. Anyhow, if you're one of those...
DCIS future changes
Sorry to beat this DCIS stuff up so much lately, but I'm trying to refine it for a few actual paying projects I'm working on. So I'm passing the benefits along to you as I have time. If you want additional features added or something changed to help you...
DCIS updated: Added ActiveScan.vbs
I posted an update for DCIS today that includes a few minor bug fixes to the loginscan.vbs script file, but more importantly, it adds a version of that called activescan.vbs. This performs roughly the same inventory audit, but on all computers joined...
Apologies: DCIS Finally Released
I have to apologize to all the folks who've been beating on me to release my login-script based computer inventory system. Known as "Dave's Computer Inventory System" or DCIS for short, it is comprised of two packages: The Login Scripts, and the Web Reporting...