Re: Apple has GOT to get themselves one of THESE
Re: Apple has GOT to get themselves one of THESE
- Subject: Re: Apple has GOT to get themselves one of THESE
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 06:21:03 -0600
On 12/01/2004 23:47, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx>
>>
>> This.Rules
>>
>> And would make life ungodly easy for Mac OS X Sysadmins
>
> What is it? Looks like more Micro$oft junk.
It's a complete automation/scripting help area for Windows sysadmins. Sample
code, help columns, automation tools, advice, and a bit of humor. It's good
enough that I was able, with a ten year gap in my VB programming (So
essentially cold), to get the sample code and info I needed to build a
script that traverses machine OU's in Active Directory, gets a list of
machines in each OU, queries those machines for basic hard drive info, and
writes it all to a tab-delimited file.
In an hour.
There's nothing like that for sysadmins on Apple's site. Nothing even close.
Apple's better than they were, but face it, if you're a sysadmin, and you
need something a bit more technical than ARD, then Apple has nothing outside
of luck with forums or mailing lists. They sure as hell don't have an entire
section of their web site devoted to the automation needs of sysadmins.
If you want at least one answer as to why IT departments like Microsoft,
that web site is a big one. MS has gobs of problems, but they get that
supporting sysadmins with more than just "Go look on a mailing list or a web
forum" is *important*. I would love to see a part of the Apple web site
doing the same thing with AppleScript/Shell/Perl/etc.
john
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"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"
Arthur Carlson
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