Where would I find the scripts associated with this article?  I've tried going thorough it step by step but cant get it to work, i wonder if there is a...

Lovely, thanks for your pointers

No, I just have a manual list of the filenames with fruits in them, though I can make a list and hold it in a table if I needed to

That was the issue.  I wasn't running the queries from the Central management Server.  many Thanks for you help on this.

Yes, i tried that, but it doesn't bring me anything back in my grid

using
SELECT * FROM msdb.dbo.sysmanagement_shared_server_groups;
GO

SELECT * FROM msdb.dbo.sysmanagement_shared_registered_servers
GO

brings...