Does anyone know of a good way to detect whether a server is virtual or physical through a script of some kind? I am currently filtering some of my GPOs via security group membership and I have one group for physical servers, another for virtual. I am wondering if there is some way I can run a startup script that will, when a machine is first joined to the domain, identify whether it is a virtual machine or not, and add it to the correct security group accordingly. This would save me the headache of trawling through new-build machines and adding them to the right groups. I am using VMWare ESX 3.5 for my virtual machines. All suggestions gratefully received...
TIA, JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
