I have
finished up oldcmp V1.3.0. I wanted to let
everyone on the list have the chance to download it and play with it if they
wanted to play with it without having to contact me.
Unless anyone comes
up with anything really bad in the next couple of days I am going to release to
the full public. Thanks to everyone who sent back feedback, keep it coming as
there are more version numbers available... A huge thanks to Ryan Durant
and Bob Free for the DHTML starter code. Ryan took the time to convert one of my
earlier HTML reports into DHTML and I was able to take that and corrupt it and
then stuff it into the program so that it would programmatically spit it out.
Anything you don't like about the DHTML code is entirely my fault. That took
considerable time both from the standpoint that DHTML is more picky about
formatting than HTML and I had to rework some serious code flow chunks to output
the XML and scripts in the proper orders and such.
Anywho... here are
the list of changes since V1.2.0:
o Added legend for
colors in HTML
o Fixed a bug in /sh that had things come up hidden unless a similar process was already running in a non-hidden manner
o Added /format dhtml option (with client side sorting/column filtering)
o Normalize name fields to lowercase (specifically DN, CN, sAMAccountName, dNSHostName)
o Fixed a bug in /sh that had things come up hidden unless a similar process was already running in a non-hidden manner
o Added /format dhtml option (with client side sorting/column filtering)
o Normalize name fields to lowercase (specifically DN, CN, sAMAccountName, dNSHostName)
o Added
/nolc option to disable normalizing listed above - i.e. see raw case
o Added Style Sheet to HTML - same as what was in the DHTML so they look similar
o Changed Date Formats around, it was messing the dynamic sorting up so put year first
o Dorked with report format a little
o Updated usage screen
o Added Style Sheet to HTML - same as what was in the DHTML so they look similar
o Changed Date Formats around, it was messing the dynamic sorting up so put year first
o Dorked with report format a little
o Updated usage screen
The DHTML is VERY
cool. You can sort by the various columns on the fly by clicking the headers.
Click once to sort one way, click again to reverse it. You can also filter out
columns with the dropdown.
I have some more
options I am thinking about in the back of my head but like I said, I think I
will let it sit for a while unless someone finds something major. That way I can
get some input from the masses as well.
I like how this has
turned out. It is one of my more dangerous tools but probably one of the more
slick looking ones as well thanks to the DHTML.
I got one question from a tester of
(parahrased) what do I see as the benefit of this tool in a world with dsquery
and dsrm and dsmod. I see the big benefit to admins who are safety conscious.
dsrm and dsmod are cool but there are no safeties, what if you accidently tell
them with a mistaken query to delete 100,000 machine accounts? Not good. I see a
future of admins asking for the DSUNDO or DSRESTORE commands after an unlucky
bout with dsrm. Not that I don't think they should have been put out there,
quite the contrary we need command line tools for this stuff and I am thrilled
to see them. You won't see me cleaning machine accounts with them in production
because I am a chicken but will use them for other things. This tools allows the
chickens (read the careful admins) to do things and be really sure of the
results prior to committing (i.e. the forreal switch). Also this has nice pretty
dhtml output, lets see dsquery | dsrm do that... :op
You can pull a copy
of this from
This is a temporary link, once I move to public dist it
will be on the main downloads page for the freeware
tools.
joe
