Comments on: Powershell Workstation/Server Audit script update

By: smurteira

smurteira — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:10:55 +0000

Hi Alan, is there a way to change the even log section of the script so that the message field takes up at least 50% of the space, otherwise it crunches things too much and makes the report way too long. Thanks

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:32:32 +0000

You would need to adjust it and remove the foreach which puts each server in a sperate file, the custom HTML functions will need to be adjusted to be put in the correct place too. Maybe just add an index page once it has completed which links to each file – that may be easier

By: Hector

Hector — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:36:09 +0000

Hi still a great script to use tell me how can it be modified to generate a single report for a list of servers rather than one per server?

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:30:56 +0000

@Arnold
On Windows 2003 the Win32_Product class isn’t installed by default.
You can install it with Add/Remove Windows Component. Look for the
“WMI Windows Installer Provider” component under “Management and
Monitoring Tools”.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:35:19 +0000

When I run the script I get the following errors:

Using Audit list: servers.txt
Collating Detail for ct501
..Hotfix Information
..Logical Disks
..Network Configuration
..Local Shares
..Printers
..Services
..Regional Options
..Event Log Settings
..Event Log Errors
..Event Log Warnings
Poging door nul te delen.
At E:\__USBdrive\Documents\Scripts\QueryInstalledSoftware\Audit.ps1:413 char:65
+ $percFreespace=[math]::round(((($objDisk.FreeSpace /1048576)/( <<<< $objDisk.Size /1048676)) * 100),0)
..Installed Software
Get-WmiObject : Ongeldige klasse
At E:\__USBdrive\Documents\Scripts\QueryInstalledSoftware\Audit.ps1:507 char:27
+ $colApps = get-wmiobject <<<< -ComputerName $Target Win32_Product | select Name,Version,Vendor,InstallDate

I have tried it to run on several servers and get always the same results.
The software section in the htm file is empty.

Can you help me to find a solution for this?

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:21:47 +0000

@baz Thanks for the comment, good idea

By: baz

baz — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:43:31 +0000

Putting in “if ( !$ComputerSystem ){” as seen below will skip computers that are not switched/broken/don’t exsist/etc

Foreach ($Target in $Targets){
Write-Output “Collating Detail for $Target”
$ComputerSystem = Get-WmiObject -computername $Target Win32_ComputerSystem
if ( !$ComputerSystem ){
continue
}

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:53:43 +0000

Wonder if I have been asleep .. saw the original ..
rediscovered the updated .. ‘blown away’ once again.
Most elegant, thanx.
A.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:59:38 +0000

@Virtu-Al I saw that, but it only works for Exchange 2003, we run 2007. I will let you know if i run into any problems.

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:52:07 +0000

I have run it with both versions of powershell and all is fine so far, strange !

Let me know if you need a hand amending it but it should be quite straight forward, someone has already changed it to make it an Exchange audit script which they run on a daily basis here http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/05/07/exchange-audit/

Again, if you need a help with the amendments let me know.

Alan