HDD Maintence over the network.

[dragonsphere23]

I was wondering if there was such a tool you can use to do diagnostic work on an end users PC over the network other than remote logging into their PCs.

 

[powertower]

What operating system will the client have?

 

[dragonsphere23]

All our clients use XP pro 32bit and Windows 7 Pro 32bit.

 

[Innocence]

Depends what you want to do, and if it has to be free.
Are you talking about actual hard drive tools like scandisk, or surface checks like SeaTools? Or general system troubleshooting?

PS - Win 7 32 bit? You running a lot of netbooks?

 

[dragonsphere23]

Well how bout this, is there a command such as \\PC Servicetag\c$ that will let me see the users hdd icon to run defrag tools?.

 

[RocketTech]

There is really no need to defrag modern OSes regularly. Xp falls in that category. If defragging regularly helps you sleep at night, set it as a scheduled job or set an AD policy.

http://www.jacobytech.net/2008/04/21/defrag-all-computers-on-a-domain-for-free-using-pstools/

 

[dragonsphere23]

Thanks for the article on this. And the response.