When I ordered this book, I got a choice of a free volume to go with
it - two were on offer, and I chose their ADSI book.

I can't remember what the other one was, but I didn't find it nearly
as compelling.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:06, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> I haven't read their 2.0 book. The 1.0 book was pretty good.
>
> Manning publishing, who does Bruce Payette's "PowerShell in Action", had an 
> ebook special on it for something ridiculous like $10 in November/December. 
> That's the one I acquired.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael B. Smith
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:00 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Dell Just Bought Kace
>
> I just bought Windows Powershell 2.0 TFM, by Jones and Hicks.
>
> I'm putting it underneath my pillow tonight. Heh.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:56, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> PowerShell v2, yes. It has a fairly robust remoting implementation.
>>
>> In v1, I still wrapped lots of scripts around psexec.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael B. Smith
>> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:53 PM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: Dell Just Bought Kace
>>
>> psexec is a bit simple, but it does do an awful lot.
>>
>> Time to start gearing up for powershell, though. I think it can do all that 
>> psexec does, and more. I'm going to find out...
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:48, Matthew W. Ross <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> I'm waiting for somebody with more programing experience than myself to 
>>> make a good frontend to SysInternals PSexec.exe (and their other tools.) 
>>> Pushing scripts/silent .MSI installs is completely doable with that 
>>> software without a client on the machine.
>>>
>>>
>>> --Matt Ross
>>> Ephrata School District
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Kurt Buff
>>> [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>>> [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Thu, 18 Feb 2010
>>> 09:11:10 -0800
>>> Subject: Re: Dell Just Bought Kace
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm not a big fan of software client installs. I do wish these
>>>> companies would figure out how to do more of this stuff without
>>>> loading extra software onto all of my machines.
>>>>
>>>> It's memory bloat and more software on the desktop means more
>>>> security risks as well.
>>>>
>>>> Blech.
>>>>
>>>> Kurt
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:11, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > I've been looking into getting a KBox as well.  I currently use
>>>> > Microsoft Configuration Manager - a behemoth of a product - and am
>>>> > looking at alternatives.  The KBox has a Dell Updates section
>>>> > which might be of use,
>>>> as
>>>> > we are a Dell shop as well.
>>>> >
>>>> > The Microsoft product is okay, but very cumbersome and don't get
>>>> > me
>>>> started
>>>> > on getting the blasted client installed...... (KBox client
>>>> > installs very easily).
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Tom Miller
>>>> > Engineer, Information Technology
>>>> > Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board
>>>> > 757-788-0528
>>>> >
>>>> >>>> tony patton <[email protected]> 2/18/2010 6:05 AM
>>>> >>>> >>>
>>>> > Discovered that bit of info couple of weeks ago, but couldn't post it.
>>>> >
>>>> > We're waiting on the Finance director to sign off on the purchase
>>>> > of a KBOX 1100 for the past month.
>>>> >
>>>> > The Dell acquisition sort of throws a spanner in the works, as my
>>>> > boss is adamant that we'll get a better price from Dell on it.
>>>> >
>>>> > Hopefully we'll be the owner of one very shortly.
>>>> >
>>>> > They've changed their licensing structure last month, the
>>>> > different modules used to be licensed separately, now they are all 
>>>> > included.
>>>> > It's worked out the same for us as we were looking for the
>>>> > Security Scanning and Asset modules.
>>>> > If you were just getting the basic box, it'll now work out a bit
>>>> > more expensive, but still a lot cheaper than most of the alternatives.
>>>> >
>>>> > The best thing about the purchase, is that they're now using Dell
>>>> > servers, pretty important factor for us as we're 100% dell, apart from 
>>>> > the Netapps.
>>>> >
>>>> > Regards
>>>> >
>>>> > Tony Patton
>>>> > Desktop Operations Cavan
>>>> > Ext 8078
>>>> > Direct Dial 049 435 2878
>>>> > email: [email protected]
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > From:
>>>> > Kurt Buff <[email protected]>
>>>> > To:
>>>> > "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
>>>> > Date:
>>>> > 17/02/2010 22:20
>>>> > Subject:
>>>> > Dell Just Bought Kace
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Discussion warranted, I presume.
>>>> >
>>>> > Can you customise software installs? In particular, I'd like to
>>>> > customise FF and Adobe Reader installs - turn of javascript in
>>>> > Reader, and add in NTLM auth and a few other things that we do
>>>> > manually here with FF.
>>>> >
>>>> > Kurt
>>>> >
>>>> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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>>>> >
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