Software Update: Windows Inventory 0.51

Mark Unwin, the developer of Windows Inventory, has released version 0.51 of his software. With this software, a system administrator can easily keep track of what hardware his Windows computers have and what software is installed on them. Clients must have the latest versions of WMI and Wscript installed and the server uses MySQL, a web server like IIS and PHP. The release notes for this version look like this:

Changes are many & varied. Check out changelog.txt for them all. some are:

• Multiple NICs
• groups
• audit.vbs auto generates a text file for offline audits. Just set the flag, and computername.txt is created & populated.
• audit.vbs can be run on remote systems provided you have admin rights on the remote PC.
• audit.vbs has a ‘verbose’ flag. Set it to see where the script is up to (without upsetting the offline audit).
• PCs without network cards are now catered for.
• there is now a ‘scripts’ directory – in future all scripts will be in there.
• there is a script called firewall_allow.vbs – run it on XP SP2 PCs to enable remote auditing.
• another script is audit_domain.vbs **CAREFUL** I have not been able to thoroughly test this. If run on an XP machine with domain admin priveledges, it should query Active Directory, and then proceed to audit each PC on the domain. I know it will return the PC names, so I cut & pasted the audit.vbs script in between. As I said – THIS IS UNDESTED – USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Having said that, if someone does have a testing domain setup, could they please run this, and provide feedback.

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