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VBScab — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:38:20 -0000

This project arose out of my frustration at not being able to easily remove
machines from collections which had been populated from Active Directory groups.
Every script I came across was built for dealing with machines added directly.
For those, though, one would be required to know the CollectionID of the collection
and pass that to the script. I thought - as I tend to do - "Aren't these machines
meant to make my life easy?" so I set about building...er...this!

- The UI is bare-bones, in order to keep the code as modular as possible.
- Some of the flow looks a bit tortuous (e.g. why call the 'Execute' sub when all 
  it really does is call 'AddTreeItemsFromSCCM') but that's because I have a "shell" HTA 
  which I thrash about with for all sorts of different activities and it keeps my life simple!
- There is a mix of WMI/WQL and direct ADO/SQL queries, mostly because I couldn't find
  equivalent queries in WQL for the SQL ones I use.
- The script requires that:
    - the Microsoft Windows Common Controls v6 library (MSComCtlLib) which
      is contained in MSCOMCTL.OCX is installed and registered;
    - the SCCM client is installed on the workstation it will be run on;
    - the account used to run it has rights to administer SCCM *and*
      has write permissions to the SQL database. I believe normal SCCM 
      operations use a proxy agent to make database changes.

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