Tech Blog of the Week: Brian Desmond’s Blog
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One thing that I often struggle with is making sure that the information that I put out each day on DCoT is good and relevant content. Sometimes I find myself falling onto the “posting just to post” trap and the results are generally less than stellar. I am sometimes so afraid of losing my audience that my quality suffers because of it.
This is not a problem that Brian Desmond deals with on his blog, which I am naming the Tech Blog of the Week! He practically refuses to update his blog unless he has something valuable to contribute. This means that, for example, over the past year he has posted about 50 times (whereas DCoT pumps that out in about a month). But the stuff that he is giving up is pure IT gold. Granted, the average home user is not going to get a whole lot out of many of his posts, but if you are a Windows network admin or work with Exchange, you definitely need to spend some quality time on his site. Here is a bit of a teaser of what he is putting out:
- Script to Collect Basic Inventory Data From Machines
- Enabling the Telnet Client on Windows Vista
- Subnet Definitions in Active Directory
- How to get the Windows 2003 Admin Tools Working on Vista
- How to Authenticate against Active Directory from a Cisco PIX
Just working through his website, I have already learned a pile about some topics that I would never have considered. And, he has given me a few ideas for some posts and applications as well.
Vital Links
- Website: http://briandesmond.com
- Post Feed (RSS): http://briandesmond.com/blog/rss.aspx
- Post Feed (ATOM): http://briandesmond.com/blog/atom.aspx
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2 Responses to “Tech Blog of the Week: Brian Desmond’s Blog”
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Nick Says:
April 30th, 2007 at 3:22 pmBrian’s basic inventory data script is useful and to the point. Put together a list of workstations, save them as a TXT file and go - the output includes the Hostname, Serial Number, Make, Model, BIOS Version, and Operating System.
If you’re looking for something that grabs a bit more info, check out my AD-COIT script. It needs to be able to talk to Active Directory - but it grabs all of your computer objects out of AD, and then runs some WMI inventory queries on them. The info it captures includes, the computer name, service pack, install date, manufacturer, service tag, processor type, domain role, current-user, model, RAM, daylight savings time, time zone, Symantec antivirus definition date, free local drive space, and a list of installed applications.
http://addicted-to-it.blogspot.com/2007/01/ad-coit-v23-inventory-tool-released-on.html
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Brian Desmond Says:
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:22 pmThanks for the link!
