Comments on: Workstation & Server Audit Script V3

By: Jamal

Jamal — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:33:45 +0000

Thanks Alan for the quick reply. That did the trick

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:16:44 +0000

Ahh, well found – there is a mistake in the script, there is a line which reads:

$colQuickFixes = Get-WmiObject Win32_QuickFixEngineering

change it to

$colQuickFixes = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $Target Win32_QuickFixEngineering

By: Jamal

Jamal — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:00:23 +0000

Hi Alan,

Love the script. One problem I am running into is when I execute the script against a list of servers, I only get patching information for the current machine that I am executing the script on. I get all of the outputs the way it is supposed to be, except the wrong patching information. I am using WIN7 enterprise and executing the script agains Win2k3 servers.

I do have admin access to the remote servers. Please help. To execute, I put the script as well as the list of servers (auditlist.txt) in the same directory. I am using the following to execute .\Audit.ps1 auditlist.txt. Please help.

By: Waffles

Waffles — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:52:33 +0000

Thanks for the great scripts. For some odd reason having this data up to date and internally public keeps my auditors off my back.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:18:22 +0000

Great script! any chance you could update it to include the following
1) Obtain page swap file size in MB
2) Check for software installed eg sysmantec, Altiris
3) Diplay WINS settings “Enable LMHOSTS Lookup” and “Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP
4) Data Execution Prevention settings
5) System variables
6) Remote desktop settings

By: Dazzpowder

Dazzpowder — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:30:28 +0000

Al, Thanks for this script I learnt about through a class
with T Lee. It has taught me so much

By: Dazzpowder

Dazzpowder — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:30:06 +0000

Al, Thanks for this script I learnt about through a class
with T Lee. It has taught so much

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Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:24:41 +0000

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By: Daniel Hong

Daniel Hong — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:15:38 +0000

Great script!

I was running into a bit of an issue with Win32_Product class, getting following error message:

Get-WmiObject : Generic failure
At C:\temp\AuditScript\Audit.ps1:330 char:46
+ $MyReport += Get-HTMLTable (get-wmiobject <<<< Win32_Product | select Name,Version,Vendor,InstallDate)
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Get-WmiObject], ManagementException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetWMIManagementException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWmiObjectCommand

I had to change"get-wmiobject" to "Get-wmiobject" and it worked fine. I'm not sure why there was a case sensitivity issue, since running "get-wmiobject Win32_Product" directly worked fine.

Anyhow, great work!

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:34:57 +0000

@Rob P. Will do Rob, although you could add it yourslef, honestly the code is very easy to change !