FW: Reporting Services and Scriptomatic (WMI)

I went googling today looking for info on using WMI to script the configuration of Sql Server 2000 Reporting Services, and found this great post on OdeToCode.com by K. Scott Allen.

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In general, WMI exposes classes to configure and mange both hardware and software on computers throughout the network. Reporting Services provides WMI classes that let us query and make changes to report server configurations.

WMI is one of those pieces of software that requires a reference manual nearby unless you work with it everyday, but there is a very easy way to get started: Scriptomatic 2.0. Just pick a WMI class and the tool will code-gen a runnable sample script in VBScript, Jscript, Python, or Perl. Scriptomatic itself is an interesting application written as a single HTA file and run in IE.

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I hadnt realized that the new Scriptomatic 2.0 already listed the Sql Reporting namespace and classes.  Very sweet!

Great post, Scott!