[wdvltalk] RE: XML help (I'm a beginner)
Robert, thanks for the link. Checking it out now. Tim === Try this link. Download System Documentation 3.2.0 http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/default.asp?srt=42&w=3&se=VB+Scriptin g&p=2 The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[wdvltalk] RE: XML help (I'm a beginner)
Cool. I'll have to take a look at that. This utility I found will output the information to a web page which is what I wanted to create. Sometimes it's good to do a little searching before developing. -Original Message- From: Stephen Caudill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: XML help (I'm a beginner) --- Hoenig, Robert wrote: --- : I think I've found a solution for this. I found a utility that : will query active directory then query the machines that are : online. Thank you for your help. : Yup, no prob. Oh that reminds me, my sysadmin was just telling me that Visio 2003 will automatically do some sort of hardware inventory and network diagraming based on AD. hth, Stephen http://www.mechavox.com * The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM * To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[wdvltalk] RE: XML help (I'm a beginner)
--- Hoenig, Robert wrote: --- : I think I've found a solution for this. I found a utility that : will query active directory then query the machines that are : online. Thank you for your help. : Yup, no prob. Oh that reminds me, my sysadmin was just telling me that Visio 2003 will automatically do some sort of hardware inventory and network diagraming based on AD. hth, Stephen http://www.mechavox.com The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[wdvltalk] RE: XML help (I'm a beginner)
I think I've found a solution for this. I found a utility that will query active directory then query the machines that are online. Thank you for your help. -Original Message- From: Stephen Caudill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: XML help (I'm a beginner) --- Hoenig, Robert wrote: --- : I've been given the task of getting PC and user information from : Active directory and from the pc's (WMI). I've written the : scripts to pull the information and they currently write the data : to a text file and an HTML file. I'm thinking that having the : data written to XML/XSL format would be more flexible because I : want to display it on our intranet and give the user the option : to download it. If someone could point me in the write direction : I can take it from there. : : Thanks in advance. : Robert : Robert, I've no experience scripting for AD, so I don't know what format it returns data in, but you might look into what formats you can extract info from it in. Are you looking to do a transformation on the HTML? If so, it could be troubled waters ahead, though it might not be... heres one possible scenario (in a perfect world): - AD spits out XML natively (am I spitting in a bucket here?) - Use XSL to transform this into browser markup or... (less fun, more likely) - AD spits out HTML 3.2 or 4.0 and thats it - fervent scripting (regex and your server side language) ensues in a desparate attempt to make this cruddy html xml compliant - XSL transformation to something useful follows might be able to be of some real help with some more info... hth, Stephen http://www.mechavox.com/ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[wdvltalk] RE: XML help (I'm a beginner)
--- Hoenig, Robert wrote: --- : I've been given the task of getting PC and user information from : Active directory and from the pc's (WMI). I've written the : scripts to pull the information and they currently write the data : to a text file and an HTML file. I'm thinking that having the : data written to XML/XSL format would be more flexible because I : want to display it on our intranet and give the user the option : to download it. If someone could point me in the write direction : I can take it from there. : : Thanks in advance. : Robert : Robert, I've no experience scripting for AD, so I don't know what format it returns data in, but you might look into what formats you can extract info from it in. Are you looking to do a transformation on the HTML? If so, it could be troubled waters ahead, though it might not be... heres one possible scenario (in a perfect world): - AD spits out XML natively (am I spitting in a bucket here?) - Use XSL to transform this into browser markup or... (less fun, more likely) - AD spits out HTML 3.2 or 4.0 and thats it - fervent scripting (regex and your server side language) ensues in a desparate attempt to make this cruddy html xml compliant - XSL transformation to something useful follows might be able to be of some real help with some more info... hth, Stephen http://www.mechavox.com/ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]