Vista - Using ADSI in NT4 domain

I would like to check disk sizes and free space on NT4 PDC & BDCs. How can I
do this in Powershell? Access through ADSI seems problematical.

"sluice" <sluice@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7C90802B-53F3-4B74-9E83-AEF6D9294AEA@microsoft.com...
>I would like to check disk sizes and free space on NT4 PDC & BDCs. How can
>I
> do this in Powershell? Access through ADSI seems problematical.

Powershell requires .NET. Is that even supported on NT4? I would think
going with VBscript would be a better route.

You're trying to determine the space and size on the PDC/BDC itself, or all
computers joined to a domain?

Marco

Marco,
I am running this script on my XP workstation with all the necessary .NET
framework installed. The NT4 environment that I want to query doesn't have to
be running .NET framework I would have thought. As long as it supports COM &
ADSI queries, it should return the information, shouldn't it?

"Marco Shaw" wrote:

>
> "sluice" <sluice@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7C90802B-53F3-4B74-9E83-AEF6D9294AEA@microsoft.com...
> >I would like to check disk sizes and free space on NT4 PDC & BDCs. How can
> >I
> > do this in Powershell? Access through ADSI seems problematical.
>
> Powershell requires .NET. Is that even supported on NT4? I would think
> going with VBscript would be a better route.
>
> You're trying to determine the space and size on the PDC/BDC itself, or all
> computers joined to a domain?
>
> Marco
>
>
>

Sorry, Marco, I didn't reply to all your questions. I want to query all the
servers (some 2003 member servers) in the domain.

"Marco Shaw" wrote:

>
> "sluice" <sluice@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7C90802B-53F3-4B74-9E83-AEF6D9294AEA@microsoft.com...
> >I would like to check disk sizes and free space on NT4 PDC & BDCs. How can
> >I
> > do this in Powershell? Access through ADSI seems problematical.
>
> Powershell requires .NET. Is that even supported on NT4? I would think
> going with VBscript would be a better route.
>
> You're trying to determine the space and size on the PDC/BDC itself, or all
> computers joined to a domain?
>
> Marco
>
>
>

Not sure about NT4, but maybe it is possible via WMI?

$computer = '127.0.0.1';
Get-WmiObject Win32_LogicalDisk -computer $computer |
Select VolumeName,FreeSpace,Size,
@{e={[int64]$_.Size - [int64]$_.FreeSpace};n='Used'}

--
greetings
dreeschkind

"sluice" wrote:

> I would like to check disk sizes and free space on NT4 PDC & BDCs. How can I
> do this in Powershell? Access through ADSI seems problematical.

Hi, dreeschkind
Unfortunately, without having installed WMI on the NT4 servers (it doesn't
come natively), I can't use it. That's why I was hoping to use
fso.GetDrive(fso.GetDriveName(drvPath)).TotalSize
see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...926cd4d2e8.asp


"dreeschkind" wrote:

> Not sure about NT4, but maybe it is possible via WMI?
>
> $computer = '127.0.0.1';
> Get-WmiObject Win32_LogicalDisk -computer $computer |
> Select VolumeName,FreeSpace,Size,
> @{e={[int64]$_.Size - [int64]$_.FreeSpace};n='Used'}
>
> --
> greetings
> dreeschkind
>
> "sluice" wrote:
>
> > I would like to check disk sizes and free space on NT4 PDC & BDCs. How can I
> > do this in Powershell? Access through ADSI seems problematical.

Well, you can, but AFAIK not remotely:

PS> $fso = new-object -com Scripting.FileSystemObject
PS> $fso.GetDrive($fso.GetDriveName('C:')).TotalSize
17955782656

--
greetings
dreeschkind

"sluice" wrote:

> Hi, dreeschkind
> Unfortunately, without having installed WMI on the NT4 servers (it doesn't
> come natively), I can't use it. That's why I was hoping to use
> fso.GetDrive(fso.GetDriveName(drvPath)).TotalSize
> see
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...926cd4d2e8.asp
>
>
> "dreeschkind" wrote:
>
> > Not sure about NT4, but maybe it is possible via WMI?
> >
> > $computer = '127.0.0.1';
> > Get-WmiObject Win32_LogicalDisk -computer $computer |
> > Select VolumeName,FreeSpace,Size,
> > @{e={[int64]$_.Size - [int64]$_.FreeSpace};n='Used'}
> >
> > --
> > greetings
> > dreeschkind
> >
> > "sluice" wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to check disk sizes and free space on NT4 PDC & BDCs. How can I
> > > do this in Powershell? Access through ADSI seems problematical.