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What services and how do you know it isn't working? What errors are you getting?

spectre - I am going to agree with you. ON some versions of CDO the default does not seem to be set. Setting this to 2 seems to allow it to work even with Windows Authentication. I will have to test this further to try to see why it varies. WIth Outlook 2003 CDO we get an option error which doesn't ...

Using the event log would be after-the-fact and require constantly scanning for a condiiton.

We could use WMI alerts but using the scheduler is far more reliable and extremely easy to enable.

YOu have not connected to the database yet. Create the conenction and set teh conenctions string before opening the recordset.

Tahks for the detailed info. YOur output is an object collection and not text. You need to convert it to text. Pipe the out put to Out-String to convert it. Sorry I didn't see that earlier. Like this: $body  = ( $_ | Get-VMGuest | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Disks |         Select-Object $VMNameEx...

This party makes no sense. Select-Object $VMNameExp, $PathExp, $CapacityExp, $FreeSpaceExp, $UsageExp What is it you are trying to select. I dont think it will expand to what you think. Print the body elements as text to see if they are correct. YOu are creating hashes but I don't think they are eva...

Try this:


$body = $( $_ | Get-VMGuest | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Disks | Select-Object $VMNameExp, $PathExp, $CapacityExp, $FreeSpaceExp, $UsageExp )
jvierra2009-12-22 15:18:16

It's the hard way. One ot two lines of code will trigger the download and install remotely and it will guarantee that teh right versoin is installed. The log will tell you what is missing. The EXE installer cannot be easily used remotely and requires some system preparation that may be an issue. Goo...

Her - try this.
IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe /passive /nobackup /norestart


Be sure all required patches and updates have been installed first or install may fail.
jvierra2009-12-22 06:16:11

IE8 can be deployed through WSUS.

YOu can also use SMS to force an install.

The WU client COM classes allow you to trigger a download and install.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx