Server Newsgroups: Scripting for Windows Server

Add AD User in Local Group

Vladimir - 2 Jun 2006 4:26 PM - 6 messages

Hi, I won't add a Active Direcory user to a computer local group (WS - Carolina_xp, local group - Administrator) Why my script isn't work? Please, explain me my mistakes. Thank you. Dim strComputer strComputer = "Carolina_xp" Dim objGroup, objUser ...

Map Drives

Craig - 2 Jun 2006 3:03 PM - 4 messages

Hi I'm using the below script through Group Policy to map drives for PCs and users. I'd like it to include a test for whether the drive is currently mapped, if it's mapped correctly then left, but if it's mapped ...

how do I set a blank password

Bill Gowan - 2 Jun 2006 12:24 AM - 2 messages

How can I set a blank password for a user, or an entire OU, in a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain that requires a minimum 5 character password? ...

Scripting and fouled up permissions

Bob - 2 Jun 2006 12:01 AM - 3 messages

I ran a script which moved 800 users to a number of different OUs. The script read an excel file that contained the user's name and the distination OU. The script firstly found the user object and the the OU object and then ...

[PS] RSS output got truncated

matros - 1 Jun 2006 5:29 PM - 11 messages

I'm trying download RSS feed and save it to file. But text get truncated at the width of the Screen Buffer Size. How can I get full text redirected to the file? PS C:\> ([xml](new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('[link] ...

CMD Just File Name?

bradwiseathome - 1 Jun 2006 4:26 PM - 3 messages

I have a long path to a file like c:\windows\system32\myfile.dll and I want to just get "myfile" so I can do a rename. I have played with different file length calculation tricks and etc and have come up ...

Add User in Local Group

Thierry - 1 Jun 2006 12:18 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I have this script: strComputer = "." Set objGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Administrateurs,group") Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/NomUser,user") objGroup.Add(objUser.ADsPath) I obtain error message : Erreur : Impossible d'ajouter ou de supprimer un membre du groupe local car ...

Creating groups in child OUs

Shashi - 1 Jun 2006 8:25 AM - 7 messages

Hallo, Here I am trying to crate a group in child ou but I get error"There is no such object on the server". Can anyone help me out. Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://ou=R&D,ou=users,ou=Local,dc=NA,dc=fabrikam,dc=com") ...

copying folders to new loc and renaming folder to date

Randall - 31 May 2006 10:12 PM - 2 messages

Hi all, I want to copy a folder from one location to another network location and rename the folder to the date it was copied. I know as much about scripting as I know about quantum physics (little to nothing!) so any help would be ...

Script / Utility to change Gateway in IP settings on many computers?

Alex - 31 May 2006 6:55 PM - 11 messages

Hi I have to change the default gateway on about 60 Windows (200, 2003, XP) machines. Is there a command line utility or another way to do it with a script? Another question: what about mass-changing NIC settings (speed, ...

Powershell and writing functions

Sanjeev - 31 May 2006 5:55 PM - 2 messages

I've googled and have not been able to find how to properly write functions that return multiple variables. I've seen examples of functions that return one variable but not mutliple variables. In VBScript, you could use 'byref' to return variables but how do you do ...

FOR from CMD running on same CMD for Expansion?

bradwiseathome - 31 May 2006 4:06 PM - 6 messages

I have a CMD with sections in it like this: @rem blahblahblah @rem blahblahblah @rem blahblahblah @rem blahblahblah At the top of the CMD, I want the script to read itself for each part ...

Problems with getting groupmembers from ADS

Thomas Schuetz - 31 May 2006 1:53 PM - 4 messages

Hi! I tried to get the members of a domaing-roup with the script shown on [link] ------------------------------------------------------------- On Error Resume Next Set objGroup = GetObject _ ("LDAP://cn=Scientists,ou=R&D,dc=NA,dc=fabrikam,dc=com") ...

Perl

Roberto Vicen - 31 May 2006 9:11 AM - 2 messages

Hi, I'm new user in Perl. How can I execute perl in Windows XP/2003??? Thanks ...

Scheduled Tasks

Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca - 30 May 2006 11:23 PM - 2 messages

Does anybody know how to get all scheduled tasks using VBScript? I've tried the one published in Script Center but it doesn't work. Thanks! Felipe ...

Can't set environment variable

Singee - 30 May 2006 8:24 PM - 2 messages

I am working with windows visual sourcesafe from the command line. In order to get it to work i need to point the SSDIR environment variable to the path of SRCSAFE.ini In the old shell i would type (as the msdn page said): set ssdir=U:\TDS ...

Win Explorer - Folder Options plus...

Tcs - 30 May 2006 4:24 PM - 2 messages

Windows Explorer is really giving me a PITA. For no apparent reason, it will NOT remember my settings, such as "Detail", vs "Icons", etc. I've tried bumping some number (can't remember exactly what at this moment) that was supposed to tell XP to remember more(?) folders to keep track of. (For ...

Telephone Number extract utility

Piper - 30 May 2006 10:34 AM - 4 messages

Hi, Total novice when it comes to scripting. Would like to have a utility where an admin type user can extract all users telephone numbers to a csv or other file type. Any assistance greatly appreciated. ...

Get computer objects location attribute

Kasper K - 30 May 2006 9:09 AM - 2 messages

I'm trying to set the default printer on the clients in my network. All the clients computer objects in AD are provided with a location in the location field. But when I run the script (.vbs) I get this error: "The directory ...

help with this script

Avi G - 29 May 2006 8:22 PM - 2 messages

Hi, i've this script On Error Resume Next Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network") strLocalComputer = objNetwork.ComputerName strComputer = Wscript.Arguments.Item(0) If strComputer = "" then Wscript.echo "You didn't specified any machine to connect to..." Wscript.quit ...

bring a cluster resource online

Don Wilwol - 28 May 2006 7:12 PM - 5 messages

I need to find the vbscript code to bring a cluster fileshare resource online. Does anybody have the code or know where i might find it? ...