How Community Content is Supposed to Work

There is something interesting going on WRT "community content" at Microsoft. See the example over in Official Scripting Guys forum:

The next day an MVP posted a script to help him:

1 Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

2 Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

4 strComputer = "."

5 Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

6 Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Name LIKE '%Microsoft Windows XP%'")

7 For Each objItem In colItems

8 If objItem.CSDVersion = "Service Pack 3" Then

9 If CheckPatch("KB953760")=True then

10 Wscript.Echo "Patch found."

11 Else

12 Wscript.Echo "Patch not found. Installing patch..."

13 objShell.Run "\\server\share\WindowsXP-kb953760-x86-ENU.exe /qn", ,TRUE

14 End if

15 End If

16 Next

18 Function CheckPatch(patch)

19 Set objSession = CreateObject("Microsoft.Update.Session")

20 Set objSearcher = objSession.CreateUpdateSearcher

21 Set objResults = objSearcher.Search("Type='Software'")

22 Set colUpdates = objResults.Updates

23 Found = False

24 Result = 0

25 For i = 0 to colUpdates.Count - 1

26 Result = Instr(colUpdates.Item(i).Title, patch)

27 If Result > 0 then

28 Found = True

29 Exit For

30 End if

31 Next

32 CheckPatch = Found

33 End Function

Kudos to Salvador Manaois III, aboren and nckmrtn for helping out the original poster.

What can we do to make more this this happen? Leave comments.

Comments

Anonymous
October 30, 2008
I'm not sure, but it sure needs to happen. Your request for guest posts on Hyper-V didn't yield too much (except from me). I had serious problems finding configs for my HDS SAN and WS08 clustering and also found little information on NIC teaming and Hyper-V. I have since posted in newsgroups answers to my own questions on these subjects. I think the rule should be that if you ask a question on a newsgroup and then find the answer or fix it yourself that you should be obliged to post the answer you found or worked out to all the places that you posted the question to. That being said, I once had aspirations to be an MVP and was told the best way to get noticed was to lurk on the forums and answer people's questions. I did this for a while, but then found I was spending a couple of hours per day on it and just ran out of puff. I think this is a "hard" problem. Cheers, Jeremy Hagan.