mikeyd101

I've been looking at custom solution for pulling stats from multiple machines as part of a bigger inventory gather / monitor project i'm working on using powershell. You can do it with WMI and you can pull pretty much any information that you want with prefmon as well as bios/network configuration etc. My plan is to pull the information in powershell and generate some nice charts using the microsoft chart controls. As well as being able to query non monitored machines (cached) or generate custom reports (things like all machine serial nos, or mac / ip address lists) In Powershell you can do something like: Get-Counter -counter "\memory\available mbytes" -computer more info on the power of get-counter Get-Counter I have started putting pieces of it together, I have remote scraping of inventory info working (bios,network,os,software using a custom mof) to csv files and i've got some generated charts working from counters, but nothing like an end solution atm.

is there a VM running on the machine, that could have its own ip and mac?

its been a while since i done any packet filtering stuff, get wireshark installed and running and think its fairly self explanatory installer. Start it up and hit capture and go (think this will capture everything, and good test to make sure your actually capturing something). Then there is a filter box which i believe you can use and option like: ip.addr==X.X.X.X to filter only traffic in/out bound to that address. Again its worth checking this first using a known IP that you can generate traffic on (i.e. your own laptop, and web browse to somewhere). I'm not sure how IP broadcast / listening works over routers, so you might have todo some more digging. I'll try and find a wireshark quickstart. shows basics of using wireshark. Also some network cards work better than others with wireshark, think its todo with if they can work in promiscuous mode. Good luck hope you find the device.

How about something like wireshark on a machine upstream filtered by the ip address. You might be able to find out what / if any traffic is being generated.

I've used WDS to PXE network boot into and deploy MDT images (xp, win7, 2003 and 2008) but not used it for deploying win8 but presume its a similar process. If you have the windows media/iso/wim you maybe able to network boot into that with WDS. It's not a easy/quick thing to setup and took me a couple of months to figure out all the features we use (out of box drivers, extra applications for installs, modifying MSI installers etc). Straight Machine clones / Builds should be able to figure out in day or so. Easiest is probably ISO/WIM source extraction then deploy to machine for getting up and running, but will need drivers / updates on top of that. Machine image capture will get you closest, provided machines are the same, and you can get a clean capture, which sounds like part of the problem. Sysprep should take machine out of the domain to prepare for capture. There are some great videos by this guy on YT: DeploymentArtist's channel - YouTube Good luck with your deployments, I know they can be frustrating. Mike

another vote for vlc, I've used it before to stream video.

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Edition v1.3.1_10 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_10\Uninst.isu" -a REM Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_09 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_09\Uninst.isu" -a REM Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_08 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_08\Uninst.isu" -a REM Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_07 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_07\Uninst.isu" -a REM Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_06 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_06\Uninst.isu" -a REM Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_05 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_05\Uninst.isu" -a REM Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_04 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_04\Uninst.isu" -a REM Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_03 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_03\Uninst.isu" -a REM Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_02 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_02\Uninst.isu" -a REM Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3.1_01 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_01\Uninst.isu" -a REM Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition v1.3 %systemroot%\IsUninst.exe -f"%SystemDrive%\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3\Uninst.isu" -a rem Install latest JRE msiexec.exe /i "\\kermitisdwds\Applications\Oracle Java 7 u17\jre1.7.0_17\jretransformed.msi" /qn rem create run once file echo older javas removed by startup script > c:\javaupdate.lck attrib +h c:\javaupdate.lck :end exit

As mentioned here's my GPO startup script for java deployment, from any version to 7u17 (I haven't checked for updates in a couple of weeks) and further versions will be deployed as new GPOs with upgrade/dependacy in GPMC. The install MSI has been modified to remove the java update settings (jretransformed.msi), and machine names will have to change to suit. I hope this can go towards helping someone else, and I can't claim to have written all the code myself just bringing into a workable solution for myself. @echo off echo Java Update Script rem written by Mike Dawkins rem last modified 4/15/2013 rem this script is designed to be run from a GPO as a machine startup script rem to remove all previous versions of java and install the latest version rem runonce file check, this is to ensure that the script is only run once per machine rem GPO should be able to remove future versions installed. if exist "c:\javaupdate.lck" goto end rem check for machine rem ELEMHPBELL = HVAC machine requiring java 6 u4 if %computername% == ELEMHPBELL goto end rem stop all browsers and javas taskkill /F /IM iexplorer.exe taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe taskkill /F /IM firefox.exe taskkill /F /IM javaw.exe taskkill /F /IM jqs.exe taskkill /F /IM jusched.exe rem remove all previous versions of Java. 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Well, had the chance to release my logon script into the wild this week and seems to work, i'll post up the code next week when i'm back at work for anyone that's interested hopefully future updates will be just a case of using the gpmc upgrade / dependency framework. I had to use a c:\javaupdate.lck file place hold so that it doesn't process the script multiple times, I'm still new with the whole GPO process so not 100% sure its required, by my approach has always been belt, braces and magic trousers. (Stops leaving your *** hanging in the air. ) Thanks again Jamesfed, its always good to double check and confirm I'm doing things the same way as other people.

Hey, I've been lurking a while, a good friend recommended me the site as shes in Education IT and I've moved into IT (and also moved location). From corporate software development to Education IT Support and from UK to USA. It's been a big change all round and 5 months in i'm really happy, I'm really starting to find my feet and get stuck into some bigger projects.

Also check out XBMC and XBMC remote (android/idevice) for home theater. I use it at home and its great, its more of a smart remote for xbmc which allows you to flick through your library and pick something to play from a list (even while something else is playing). It also supports limited DNLA playback from android and airplay (idevices), so you can stream playback of content from device to the telly. Also WOL (I use WOL Wake on Lan Wan, on Android), no nasty having to get up to switch the machine on for me Good luck Mike

If you have WMI available on the machines you can control them with that scripted. I have just started working on custom solution for our school, for wake, reboot and shutdown machine groups. I create text files for machine groups e.g labs containing lists of machine names and mac addresses (machine name used for reboot and shutdown, mac used for wake). I'm also using powershell and the scripts are still work in progress but might be handy for some one else looking for same thing, I'm hoping to expand the functions and build and management web framework around them. Shutdown.ps1 #### Provide the computer name in $computername variable $ServerName = Get-Content $args[0] ##### Script Starts Here ###### foreach ($Server in $ServerName) { $machine = $Server.split(",")[0] Write-Host Shutting Down $machine Get-WmiObject win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName $machine | Invoke-WMIMethod -name Win32Shutdown } ########## end of script ####################### Restart.ps1 #### Provide the computer name in $computername variable Param ([switch]$force) $shutdownValue = 2 if ($force -eq $true) $shutdownValue = 6 $ServerName = Get-Content $args[0] ##### Script Starts Here ###### foreach ($Server in $ServerName) { $machine = $Server.split(",")[0] Write-Host Shutting Down $machine # 0 (0x0) Log Off # 4 (0x4) Forced Log Off (0 + 4) # 1 (0x1) Shutdown # 5 (0x5) Forced Shutdown (1 + 4) # 2 (0x2) Reboot # 6 (0x6) Forced Reboot (2 + 4) # 8 (0x8) Power Off # 12 (0xC) Forced Power Off (8 + 4) Get-WmiObject win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName $machine | Invoke-WMIMethod -name Win32Shutdown -ArgumentList @($shutdownValue) } ########## end of script ####################### wake.ps1 Function WakeMAC([string]$macString = $(write-host 'MAC address is required')){ If ($macString -ne ""){ $mac = $macString.split(':') | %{ [byte]('0x' + $_) } } if ($mac.Length -ne 6) { write-host 'Invalid MAC address' } Else{ $UDPclient = new-Object System.Net.Sockets.UdpClient #$UDPclient.Connect(([system.Net.IPAddress]::Broadcast),4000) #write-host ([system.Net.IPAddress]::Broadcast) $UDPclient.Connect($ip,$port) $packet = [byte[]](,0xFF * 102) 6..101 |% { $packet[$_] = $mac[($_%6)]} [Void] $UDPclient.Send($packet, $packet.Length) [Void] $UDPclient.Send($packet, $packet.Length) [Void] $UDPclient.Send($packet, $packet.Length) write-host "Wake-On-Lan magic packet of length $($packet.Length) sent to $macString" } } [string]$ip="10.105.103.255" [int]$port=7 $machines = Get-Content $args[0] # wake all the machines in the group foreach ($machine in $machines) { write-host machine $machine ip $ip port $port $mname = $machine.split(",")[0] $mmac = $machine.split(",")[1] write-host Waking $mname mac $mmac wakeMAC($mmac) Start-Sleep -seconds 1 # Prevent boot storm } ping.ps1 #### Provide the computer name in $computername variable $ServerName = Get-Content $args[0] ##### Script Starts Here ###### foreach ($Server in $ServerName) { $machine = $Server.split(",")[0] if (test-Connection -ComputerName $machine -Count 1 -Quiet ) { Write-Host $machine "alive" } else { Write-Warning "$machine No Reply" } } ########## end of script #######################

Possibly a script to add them to a group with the assigned software and gpupdate, may still require a reboot. The GPO should be able to install software assigned to computer using the system account. I have very limited knowledge of the inner workings of GPOs atm so you'd need to test.

Hi, I have recently been looking at same things for Reader, Flash, Shockwave and now Java. I think I pretty much got to the point of creating custom MSI to exclude Java updates etc. I was wondering if you have got over the issue of removing previous versions of Java. I'm presented with a number of machines with various previous Java installs, I found an excellent batch script to remove previous entries by guid. and then I was going to run the lastest modified MSI after that in a batch file. Just wondering if there's any better ways, as this will have to be a logon script that has some kind of run once lock in place. Hopefully after I have them standardized I can use the GPO dependacies. Thanks for he excellent guides Java mass removal script can be found at Java J2SE & JRE Mass Uninstallation Script (Bat) Mike

Hi, I recently wanted to create a silent install for the SMART Suite + Smart Response to include product registration. Were slightly different in our deploy were using Microsoft MDT 2010 / WDS and only really using it for machine builds (done on the lab desk with admin rights). I have just discovered Group Policies Objects (GPO) (in the last week) so will be trying to move to that for client push rollouts, and that will allow a GPO to be applied to machines for software installs (silent and with elevated rights). I've currently got a couple of test installers working (Adobe Reader, Flash, shockwave and working on trying to get a java updater, but that comes with its own headaches). It looks like you are already using the Smart Install Manager, so you should already be able to create your custom MSI/MST for install. You may not be able to create an installer that doesn't require elevated rights. My main Installer runs this: msiexec.exe /i "SMART Education Software 2012.msi" TRANSFORMS="KISD Smart.mst" /qn And I run a batch file from MDT to run multiple installers for SP1 (server name removed): Start /wait msiexec.exe /p "\\\Software\SMART\esi2012sp1\CommonFiles_11_1_x_1.msp" /qn Start /wait msiexec.exe /p "\\\Software\SMART\esi2012sp1\drivers11.0sp2patch.msp" /qn Start /wait msiexec.exe /p "\\\Software\SMART\esi2012sp1\notebook11_sp1.msp" /qn Start /wait msiexec.exe /p "\\\Software\SMART\esi2012sp1\response_4.0_sp1.msp" /qn Start /wait msiexec.exe /p "\\\Software\SMART\esi2012sp1\SMARTInk1.1.PATCH.msp" /qn Hope some of this info is a help.

Possible attack from app such as sub 7?