Nice and helpful post – thanks for sharing. I’m sure it’ll help many people.

Hey, by the way, I too run a blog on Free Active Directory Reporting Tools and I thought I’d share it with you.

If you know of any freely available tools that could help us all assess these policies, could you please let me know, so I could cover it on my blog as well?

Thanks alot man, and good luck.

Adios,
Marc

The buyback option is a joke. They just buy the vehicle for what it is worth present day. You still have to pay the residual difference back to BMW. So basically BMW buys your car for the market price and leaves you with a debt. This is no different than buying a new car with a trade-in.

I would wait until the vehicle exceeds the lemon statues for your state then proceed forward with the California dealership and the potential lemon issue. While in the end, the dealership will take a car sale hit, it doesn’t directly affect them, so they are less than eager to correct your issues. Lemon law lawyers for BMWs are expensive because of the label of the car, however, if you feel your car issues are unacceptable or unsafe, you can always have BMW consider a substitution of collateral.

Sorry to hear about your issues

-Brenton

Thank you for your post on my blog. I respectfully disagree with your blog about Powershell not being a tool. When I first started working with Powershell, I felt the same way as well as I was more comfortable with a GUI environment for all of my transactions. This however, became quickly clear as a Systems Engineer that the GUI would not work in enterprise environments. Why?

Take a school, for example, where you have students that come and go every year. One of my largest school clients has in excess of 700 students a year. When each student gets an active directory logon and an exchange email, you will have to develop a script to import these students. While the import-csv utility maps a csv file to active directory attributes, what happens when you try to import a user with an existing username? That’s why the function described in this article is powerful, as you can check before you import and have an error.

A second example, the company I am currently consulting for is in the Top 10 of the Fortune 500 organizations. They have to create systems to distribute to a multitude of hospitals. We have to create unique forests and domains for the systems. In doing this, we have a script that populates the active directory schema with OUs, Users and Groups, imports the predefined policies, and does a validation check to ensure Active directory meets the regulatory requirements.

With VB Scripts slated to go away in the next Server release, it’s imperative that Systems Engineers learn Powershell as it is the new standard for systems. Plus being able to perform EVERYTHING that you can in a VB script with Powershell and make references to .NET assemblies (like my encryption article), it’s a tough argument to not use it.

Happy Coding!

-Brenton

You ought to try one of those as well. Why would you want to waste your time writing quirky PowerShell scripts?!

Remember the dealership is NOT required to help. I literally walked into the dealership with the lemon claim papers filled out when I spoke with them. The problem with filing a lemon claim, is that the dealership is actually not involved. You are filing it against the manufacturer, however, if the court favors you for your claim, then the dealership takes the hit. So while it doesn’t immediately and directly impact the dealership, after its all said and done it does — how many times has this happened? Is it within the lemon statutes for your city? If not — you have to wait until it fails again.