This tip comes from the website 4sysops.com. There is a program called AutoAdministrator that used to be payware, but is now freeware. This program allows you to drill into your Active Directory structure and check off a bunch of computers for an action. What can you do?
- Password updates
- Remote shutdown / reboot
- Services maintenance
- Registry maintenance
- Network ping
- Remote file management
- Remote file information
- Logged on user information
- Execute processes locally or remotely
- WMI queries
- ODBC maintenance
I used it to select all the computers in an OU and then look at the logged in user to see if the computer description matched up. I was also able to remotely execute programs against multiple computers which is very cool!
– Soli Deo Gloria