I just ran into an issue I haven’t hit before. Someone reported a bug with OldCmp last summer that when they moved computers, the names were all changed to lowercase. I realized that that could be a problem based on what I recalled of the code paths and wrote it down in my bug/dcr file for oldcmp. So this afternoon I open up the file and then open up oldcmp in the IDE to start checking out what I needed to change and as I chase the code I realize that support for solving this problem are already in the source. Back in January 2004 for V01.03.00 I had added an option to prevent it from normalizing the names to lowercase called -nolc or no lowercase. I had completely forgotten about it.
That made me think, maybe I have too many tools with too many options. I just can’t keep my mind wrapped around all of it.
No way you should cut back in any way. Your tools save real people, real time and it would suck not to have them around anymore. Now that’s easy for me to say as it’s not my time spent maintaining them. I just get the benefit of using them often.
Cheers
Hi Joe,
I’ve talked today with Carlos (You know Carlos 🙂 ) and just came on this post … Carlos run int the same issue with netdom.exe – all comupter accounts are lowercased with netdom.exe when it is used to move computer account between domains. I’ve just sent this URL to Carlos and he asked me to post this comment and ask You to conntact him about this issue (You know his e-mail).
Well I am sure the NETDOM issue isn’t related to what happens in OLDCMP. It isn’t an OS API thing, it was simply that I normalize all of the DNs coming through by default so the output looks cleaner (and I like lowercase).
OK, so he will have to look for other cause.
… and probably the cause is that someone who wrote netdom likes lowercase :).
Sorry for posting one comment as two.
Yup I have no clue why its (NETDOM) is doing lower case at the moment, I have rasied it internally lets see what comes out of this….
C
Hey Joe,
This is Athif again:-) and I am the one to report this issue. Thanks for your email and letting me know about -nolc switch.
Your tool rocks!
Bye,
Athif
http://msmvps.com/Athif
joe,
Are you thinking on the line of merging oldcmp & admod ??
I am sure they share lot of code between them.
admod can handle all the requirement of oldcmp so they can be merged, we can sacrifice the html or dhtml report for CSV output. People, I have given oldcmp always used CSV and then dump into excel & trim n beautify the data, even when giving it to management as a report instead of using HTML report.
adfind is altogether another beast 😉
And I think it should remain separate even if only reason to keep is segregation of functionality. i.e only search and no modification.
May God bless you for your good work 🙂
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Kamlesh
No plans to merge oldcmp and admod, they actually wouldn’t have as much code merge as you might expect and what would probably be merged is already merged in separate c++ files that are compiled in.
Actually if anything gets merged, it would be adfind and admod because it could add some serious functionality. That in fact was the plan until last week when I came up with a scheme that may put that off for a while.