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[Inspyre]

Being a SysAdmin (not a programmer) I am constantly challenged for quick solutions to everyday problems.

VDS appears to have the "horsepower" to get the job done quickly.

I know VDS has very useful features & some cools DLL addins, but I don't know enough about the capabilities of VDS to make a purchase decision on VDS 5 :


For example, I am looking to develop the following quick & dirty tools with VDS, which I would need to redistribute to co-workers.

1. Mass registry changes based on Computername.
2. Pull active lists of active computers from the network.
3. "Push" Installs of icons and precision file placement on remote PCs.
4. PC stats & software inventory on the click of a button.
5. Automation of FTP uploads & downloads.
6. Dial out and collect data(flat text) from external sources.

All of this can be done from WMI / VBS, but I'd like to have a nice GUI frontend (Preferrably without VDS dropping out to a hidden pipe) in which VDS can handle the returned information.

I've around the forum and I have not heard anyone using VDS with WMI or VBS.

Can VDS directly handle WMI / VBS and capture the results in a usable form in output to a db using VDSDLL3 / (VDSDB.DLL)?

If not, has anyone considered developing a custom solution?

[Garrett]

I use to create and run .vbs files via VDS, but that's the extent I've ever
played with this idea.

-Garrett

[vdsalchemist]

Hi Inspyre,
VDS does not have any ActiveX or COM abilities as of yet. So WMI (Windows Management Instramentation) scripts are out of the question unless you use VBS and have it send the info to a file or through a DDE conversation. Keep checking back about this though. Soon there will be a way to do this a bit more elagant