I’ve used the following attached script to find orphaned GPOs.
It can do the following;
- GPOs that exist within SYSVOL but not within the GPO management console.
- Also vice versa – GPOs in management console but not in SYSVOL.
Very handy. GPO Check
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I’ve used the following attached script to find orphaned GPOs.
It can do the following;
Very handy. GPO Check
If you dont have sms / sccm client in your gold disk then GPO is the next best thing to get the SCCM client out into your environment.
This is a real nice and clean install script for IE 7 which i have modified to install SCCM. http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/installing-application-using-vbscript
object.Run(strCommand, [intWindowStyle],[bWaitOnReturn]) 'INSTALL MS INTERNET EXPLORER 7 USING VBScript Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") spath = objShell.CurrentDirectory If fso.FileExists(spath & "\IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe") Then path = """" & spath & "\IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe" & """ /passive /norestart /update-no" objShell.Run(path, 1 ,True) i = 0 'INSTALL MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER 7 i = objShell.Run(path, 1 ,True) If (i = 0) Or (i = 3010) Then 'WRITE EXIT CODE [0-success/3010-success&requires reboot] TO EVENTLOG objShell.LogEvent vbLogSuccess, sLogHeader & "Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 installation completed successfully." & VbCrLf & "Exit code: " & i Else MsgBox "The installation of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 returned an error: " & i & VbCrLf & _ "Please contact IT Support to report this error.", vbOKOnly objShell.LogEvent vbLogError, sLogHeader & "Installation returned failure code: " & VbCrLf & "Exit code: " & i End If Else WScript.Quit (1) End If set fso = Nothing set WSHShell = Nothing Wscript.Quit