Comments on: Search all the computers in your domain

By: Dan O'Neill

Dan O'Neill — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:52:44 +0000

I think it might be something to do with how you’re searching for the file – I was searching all excel files for a particular phrase that I knew would only be in that one file. Or a pretty small set of files anyway.

I’ll fire you on a mail in the morning and see if I can be of any help.

By: Cory

Cory — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:25:39 +0000

ok it just finished the job and it did not create an “overall.txt” file. It just created a txt file for every machine on our network whether the PC has the file or not. How do I correct this?

By: Cory

Cory — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:01:06 +0000

Nice! I needed to find what some 160 PCs did NOT have a file in their temp folder and was able to use this to view that information as well. I just gathered that everything NOT in the overall.txt file were not the PCs I needed.

The ONLY missing thing in this tutorial is how to easily retrieve all the computer names within your domain network. I came across a super nice visual basic script that can output that information for you. I can’t upload it here so if anyone would like it, click on my name above and use the contact form on my website to send me an email.

Thanks again Dan.

By: Dan O'Neill

Dan O'Neill — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:45:43 +0000

No problem Vince, thats exactly why I did it!

By: Vince O'Connor

Vince O'Connor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:20:47 +0000

Great write up, exactly what I was looking for, thanks for taking the time to publish this info. it has saved me a great deal of time and energy.