Comments on: Is there a way of checking remote PCs to see how much of the hard drive is taken up with MS Office documents? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/is-there-a-way-of-checking-remote-pcs-to-see-how-much-of-the-hard-drive-is-taken-up-with-ms-office-documents/ Wed, 22 May 2013 02:14:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: kevinbeaver http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/is-there-a-way-of-checking-remote-pcs-to-see-how-much-of-the-hard-drive-is-taken-up-with-ms-office-documents/#comment-60323 kevinbeaver Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:42:50 +0000 #comment-60323 Sounds like FileLocator Remote is a perfect solution for you. Otherwise, use a tool such as FileLocator Pro or Effective File Search…they’re really fast and can be used over the network once you map a drive to the local machines’ C$ share.

]]> By: Troy Tate http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/is-there-a-way-of-checking-remote-pcs-to-see-how-much-of-the-hard-drive-is-taken-up-with-ms-office-documents/#comment-60316 Troy Tate Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:14:32 +0000 #comment-60316 The tools mentioned can be run against a remote PC by mapping a drive to the machines. You have to be able to mount those drives in some fashion to run tools like these against them. The other option is to use a login script and capture the information to a text file. That could be time consuming during login.

]]> By: robert stewart http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/is-there-a-way-of-checking-remote-pcs-to-see-how-much-of-the-hard-drive-is-taken-up-with-ms-office-documents/#comment-60278 robert stewart Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:20:44 +0000 #comment-60278 I assume you have access to the remote pc’s, how do you connect to them, remote desktop, pcanywhere, etc etc. You can always remote into and then search the local hard drive for *.doc, *.xls, etc, etc, for all office file types by using Windows search companion, assuming this is a Microsoft machine. I don’t know of any tool that will search multiple hard drives across a network, but I’ve never searched for one either. I hope this helps you out, but first we really need to know how you plan to connect to each remote laptop.

]]> By: findsarfaraz http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/is-there-a-way-of-checking-remote-pcs-to-see-how-much-of-the-hard-drive-is-taken-up-with-ms-office-documents/#comment-60265 findsarfaraz Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:38:40 +0000 #comment-60265 Your reply is extremely helpful and informative. I have voted you. But this question is about running that on the remote pc.

Regards,
Sarfaraz Ahmed
MS Excel help

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