That's cool... actually I started down that path already before reading your solution. What I did was very similar, I wrote a section of code that dumps all the important variables from my main script to a macaddress.csv file (comma delimited) then it copies that file to the PDC of the particular domain. Then I have a utility which collects the contents of each of the directories onto one server nightly (or whenever commanded). Then a VB program sucks up the contents of all those .csv files into a SQL database. It will overwrite the information in the database records with new data but it has the extra bonus of added intelligence. When certain items change instead of overwriting, it will flag warnings or perform other specific functions which make my life a lot easier. In a way I guess Kixtart + a little VB replaced SMS :p bwhah --I love it.