Scripting

Holy cow...

Google for the term "vbscript list services"

Ian, I was *this* close also...but thought the same thing, lol.

I'll make it easy: scriptomatic

thanks for the ingenious reply VBSCAB but i have already tried that and all i was able to find and create myself was a way to list all services but was not able to create a new notepad file and copy the list in that. that is what i actually need.....

So, in fact, you already have part of what you're looking for . What you want is a means to open Notepad and copy data into it. It's usually best to state your actual requirements, don't you find?

Now, I'm looking for a script to automatically add MSIs to an SCCM collection. All it needs to do is:

- open the MSI
- get the ProdsuctName, ProductCode, ProductVersion and PackageCode properties
- create a Software Distribution group based on the name of the MSI's parent folder
- create an SCCM package
- create an SCCM program
- add the package to the Distribution Points
- create an advertisement for the package
- create the collection

It looks simple enough, right? Do you know where I could find one?



HOLY FREAKIN' COW! Hint: you *may* have to do some of the work yourself!

- take the script which appeared in the first hit for that search
- do another search for scripts to start processes
- think a little. You know, longer than 3 seconds...
- combine the two

Actually, Notepad is a dreadful tool. Why not copy the list to the Clipboard? Then you can paste the content wherever you want. (Hint: use IE as a container - objIE.document.parentwindow.clipboardData.SetData "text", "the data to send to c/b")

OK, I'll make it reeeeeal easy: google.com
type scriptomatic download site:microsoft.com
hit enter.

Owen, it looks like you REEEEEEEEEEALY want to join me on my wall, because AFAICR, Scriptomatic won't automatically generate the entire code to copy data to Notepad, which is what the OP wants. Or someone to script it for him for free.

won't it though, if you choose plain text output? IIRC it opens a notepad document with the output inside it...couldn't be simpler.