Re: auditing

"kirk" <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a problem that needs solving, and am not sure of the best way to
handle it.
I need to audit the license usage of specific office components on our
network. (Access at the moment)
I am a small portion of a huge multinational corp. and luckily that's all
I
need to audit. I do not have access to SMS or any other more sensible
long-term solutions for auditing or management, and I'm stuck with mixed
bag
of licensing that has not been kept track of.
I need a way to find out who has what where and put the data into an easy
to
interpret format so I can plead my case for a better solution and put out
the
current fire.
This will have to be something I can either add to a log on script or run
from the desktop with the result dumping into a text file or excel or
something that can be seen in black and white.
I am not a scripter myself but understand the basic concept and usage and
have made use of the scrip repository and user submitted scripts in past
with
great effect (big Thanks to all those who contribute) Thanks in advance
for
any help or information.



Kirk,

I do not know if this helps your case but it is a simple solution and the
tool has many reports to pick from and many report output formats to
utilize.

Download the freeware WinAudit from www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm.

Put the WinAudit.exe on your Domain Controller. I use the
%LogonServer%\NetLogon share. Yeah, you do not need to install this program
just use the EXE.

Decide where you want your Audit reports to be centrally located. I use the
[
%LogonServer%\NetLogon\WinAudit-Reports ] folder. The folder has to exist
and user must have write access to folder.

Create a Batch or VBScript to run this command below on Logon. Watch for
word wrap; the command should be one line command.
::========COMMAND START========
%LogonServer%\NetLogon\WinAudit.exe /r=s /o=PDF
/f=%LogonServer%\NetLogon\WinAudit-Reports /m=Running Software Audit -
Please Wait...
::========COMMAND END========

Here is an Example VBScript to run command above: Watch wordwrap.
'========CODE START========
On Error Resume Next
set oWsh=CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oWsh.Run "%LogonServer%\NetLogon\WinAudit.exe /r=s /o=PDF
/f=%LogonServer%\NetLogon\WinAudit-Reports /m=Running Software Audit -
Please Wait...",1,True
'========CODE END========

You have over 30 reports to pick from and 10 different output file types for
the report. The default report name will be COMPUTERNAME.TYPE. The report
in the commands above will be %COMPUTERNAME%.PDF.

I hope satisfies your audit request and is a simple enought solution that
can be setup easily in your environment. Thanks

mjb


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