24/01/2007 by Paul.

This could be well worth some time spent to assist with deploying windows Vista machines in a business enviroment.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/desktopdeployment/bdd/2007/default.mspx

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16/01/2007 by Paul.

After looking at the AD script earlier someone has pointed out a Free IT management suite.

You can get it from here - http://www.spiceworks.com/

There are sponsored links within the app however if it does the job.

-Update-

The software looks very professional and collects some excellent information about my office network.

I asked it to product an excel report however and it stuck at 100% CPU for an hour and managed to use 2gb of ram before I stopped the process.

It may be time to run a smaller report

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16/01/2007 by Paul.

This script helps capture network information for those documenting their networks.

I have run it on a couple of networks and the detail is useful however it reports into a long text document, which would be time consuming to import into our sharepoint.

If I can I may look to modify the script to output the required details to a CSV file.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/01/15/do-you-inventory-your-network.aspx

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