The Lazy Admin

TLA v.8 has been released. Features galore! The installed software list has been cleaned up and now has the ability to uninstall apps (thanks Mike!). I’ve make big changes to the LDAP search. When you search for either a user or employee your results come back in a list view. Double clicking on that gives more information, including room number (cheers Greg:). Same with computer name searching. Searching for hostname* will return all the results in a list view, double clicking on a result will do a live connection to the computer. Many new things have been added, too many to list:) Go download it, give feedback cheers!

TLA .8 is coming….I promise. Our good friend from across the pond, MikeB has once again contributed some code. I’m almost done but have some more testing to do. Major overhaul of the search AD functions. Hopefully you’ll like it. Stay tuned…

The Lazy Admin v.7 has been released! This version isn’t a huge release but I still feel it warranted a whole .version number, simply because it has another long requested feature: the ability to start a remote process!

(Sorry, I don’t have a vista or XP theme:)
Please see the changelog for more information. Again, thanks to Mike B for all his help!

TLA v.6.1 has been released. This “spring cleaning” version of TLA just does a little house keeping/more bug fixes.
Most noticeably is the new icons (see previous post) and some menu changes. I made a menu for batch queries (in hopes to expand those features) and grayed out some features that weren’t available depending on if the host name is resolved or not. See the changelog.txt for the full feature set. Stay tuned for TLA .7, and keep those suggestions coming:)

New icons coming to TLA. Special thanks to the Tango Desktop project people. Now all I need is a nice application icon (hint hint).

There is an error in the latest version (and probably all versions of TLA) in the logged-in user component.
TLA reports that the user running TLA is the person logged in on the remote computer. This is known to at least affect Vista, and possibly XP.
I believe it’s due to the fast-user switching. I’ll have to research it.
In short, don’t be alarmed if you see your name show up as logged in to the remote computer:)

The Lazy Admin v.6 (Mike B release) is out! I’m calling this the Mike B release since a “bloke” from the UK named Mike B is responsible for it. He worked on TLA and sent the code over my way. Check out the process manager! His fixes to the process manager also closed some bugs/todo’s I had. For the full list, check out the changelog.txt file.
As for the uptime reading a date from the future, I have not been able to reproduce it. I’ll keep my eye out. If anyone notices any bugs that aren’t in the documentation, please report it in the forums or email me (see help->about).
Thanks again Mike!

This is a minor update (or fix depending on your configuration). Actually, it’s a downgrade. I had to remove the save and open file features in the batch query option. In order to use the file dialog box an additional OCX file was required.
As you probably know one of the goals of TLA is to be lightweight and portable. Keeping that in mind I didn’t want the end user to carry another file. LazyAdmin.exe is all you need.
The end result is you’ll need to paste the file information in to notepad or the editor of your choice.
If you’ve tried v.5 and it was crashing when doing the batch query, give this version a shot.
Thanks!