Re: Possible to parse collected files from clients?
- From: "Garth" <Spam@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:42:04 -0500
Hi Kevin, there are many ways to do this but each has their pros and cons.
AD & Exchange with SMS is the best that I have found mostly because Exchange is kept up-to-date, or at least should be.
MIF files or Mof edit, this works but you will always have PCs that don’t have department info and are hard to update when thing change.
What I have found work best, is a twofold approach, Change by User name within AD/Exchange then also charge by PC within AD/SMS. Each year I would then give the departments their list of both clients and PCs that I knew about and then I would start the clean up! Each department would dispute a PC or User and I would either delete them or move them to a new department adjust the final billing amount. Any unaccounted PCs or Users would be disable until the client complained then I would add them to the right department. J
The first year I did this, it took over 2 month of fighting with client to finally have everyone “happy” and my boss was ecstatic that we finally found a way to cost recover! Each year after that is was less of a process...
Be prepared to do a lot of leg work about who own what PCs and who work for whom.
"Kevin" <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1A132441-8C4F-400E-A0F0-5A0373BDF7B9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We would like to pull certain information about each of our workstations. We
are a large non-profit ministry organization with many sites and
sub-ministries. Unfortunately, our political organization is not reflected
either by our AD OU's or by geography. In other words we have 2 seperate AD
trees (within 1 of our forests), each tree having it's own heirarchy which
reflects the sub-ministries to some degree but accurately. Basically, the
question is this: Can we through SMSM parse files on the client hard drives
to extract a value which will tell us which ministry the machine is owne by
(for inventory/billing)? This assumes we can identify a file the fits the
bill. Another question might be, how do other orgs do this? It's easy when
the AD archivecture reflects our billing architecture, but... In this case, I
just don't know which path to walk down here. Thanks to all!
Kevin
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