I'm not sure I understand what the point is here... Are you looking for a backup/restore solution so you can recover a server after a disaster?
Or are you looking to document a server's configuration so that you can recover it manually after rebuilding it from distribution media? Or is the purpose something else entirely? -gil -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] documenting servers This is the thing. Im not sure. I was hoping that someone who has a state-of-the-art package that does it would be able to let me know :) -----Original Message----- From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2003 16:19 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] documenting servers The scripting isn't the issue, it's figuring out what you want to collect? WMI provides all kinds of data and there are all kinds of scripts that collect pertinent information. What's a list of information that you want? Al -----Original Message----- From: Kingslan, Rick T. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] documenting servers Oliver, I don't currently know of the kit, nor do I have a solution - and would lend my support to coming up with a reasonably priced solution for such. I'd love to sit down and write such a script / series of scripts, but don't have the time because I'm too busy doing the manual work that good documentation would help to alleviate. A sad 'chicken and the egg' situation. I suspect if we don't find a good free system, that this group could make a good contribution to IT at-large by taking this on as a challenge and a collaborative effort. Heck, get a section at SourceForge and start writing.... 'Cash strapped IT monkeys'..... LOL! You slay me! Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory LAN Administration - Windows 2000 West Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] documenting servers For us poor peeps at the bottom end of the scale, is there any way of achieving a similar result using scripts etc ? Sort of like a roll-your-own server documenting kit ? I did hear tell of a public (kinda opensource) project to create a wedge of scripts and various tools that could be used together to create a documentation kit (think it was refered to as a cookbook) which would do enough. Anyone else here of this? Anyone else know of some scripts that skint, cash strapped IT monkeys like me could use to do something similar ? Olly -----Original Message----- From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 October 2003 18:28 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] documenting servers Hopefully I can learn somethinge new here. What feature documents the host that erdisk also does for 2000 platform? You're not referring to ASR are you? ________________________________ From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:01 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] documenting servers I think this is a new feature of Windows XP, and Windows 2003 server backup and recovery operations. Chris Wolf's new book on Troubleshooting Microsoft Technologies covers this topic pretty completely. For Windows 2000 and earlier you would do well to look at Aelita's ERDISK product, and INTRUST for backup up remote registries, and documenting your environment. Also ERDISK for AD is a must for AD DR. For bare metal restore operations, Veritas and ComValt offer Intelligent DR add-ons for Windows 2000 and NT4 DR. I link to Chris's book is on my blog. Todd Myrick http://www.toddm.org/adog Become ADOG now! -----Original Message----- From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] documenting servers Has anyone seen software or maybe some scripts that make it easy to document a new server for disaster recovery purposes? (interested primarily in this for my AD and back-end services servers, but others as well). Thanks! 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