Server Newsgroups: Scripting for Windows Server

run excel workbooks sequentially

DerekF - 17 Jun 2006 5:10 AM - 3 messages

Hi all, I have 5 excel workbooks that, when they open, refresh external data, then push the refreshed data to another database, then they close. I would like to create a script that opens the first, it does its thing, then when it closes, ...

Searching active directory

Leo - 16 Jun 2006 8:41 PM - 2 messages

Hi Im searching active directory for users created in the last 2 months. I tried to use the "CreateTimeStamp" property in the WHERE clause, with no success, like this: select displayname from 'LDAP://ou=finance,dc=fabrikam,dc=com' where ...

Quota Management

Ian Robert - 16 Jun 2006 3:48 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I am running SBS2003 with Disk Quota Management turned on. The users are regularly hitting their maximium and then "play dumb " -"Oh I can't have used all that up...show me how". I've played around with scripting and there doesn't seem to be a way of ...

Password Age Script Output

jeff.jraymond - 16 Jun 2006 3:08 PM - 2 messages

I'm trying to run the following WSF script to find users with password over 60 days old and thus far I can get it to work perfectly - even in verbose mode - I simply can't get it to output to a flat file like I ...

Copying a script and executing it on multiple remote machines.

brock_griffin - 16 Jun 2006 3:06 PM - 8 messages

Hello all. I'm at my wits end here. I am pretty new to scripting, I've been using it for about 6 months, but have been dealing with very simple scripts. I'm in a position now where I have to check about 300 ...

Task Manager

jb - 16 Jun 2006 12:44 PM - 2 messages

How can I make scandisk and defrag run on every computer on the network without having to go to each computer's task schedule and setting it there. I am having problems with users turning this off on their prospective pc. I ...

Identifying 2003 TS in logon script

Mark - 15 Jun 2006 2:04 PM - 2 messages

Good Morning, I am looking for some opinions on how to identify what OS a user is logging onto within a logon script to run the approperate script. The OS I am looking for specifically is a 2003 standard and a 2003 enterprise server. I need to ...

Uninstalling XP Pro

Beevee - 15 Jun 2006 6:55 AM - 3 messages

I have Windows XP Pro installed. This is the result of having given for repair my PC to a "friend" who, when he sent it back said he had upgraded it for me. At the next Windows update, I find it's an illegal copy and I am now in a ...

Batch script setting environment variables and passing values

JasonDWilson - 15 Jun 2006 3:06 AM - 3 messages

I have a batch job that calls another batch job and I want to pass return statuses between the two. I can set environrment variables but when a process ends so do those variables created via the SET command. Is there ...

Batch Scripts - to capture output

SangHunJung - 14 Jun 2006 10:19 PM - 2 messages

Hi guys, I need a little help to check a file's modification (antivirus defenition file) and genereate a log. The log format should be Name of PC and Date (MM/DD/YYYY, Time) of the file in one line. ...

Set local admin password

Mike - 14 Jun 2006 7:35 PM - 4 messages

I would like to change all XP local admins password to the same on the network. I have a list of computers in a text file that I would like to point to and then return to a file if it was successful or not. ...

Adding provider

laimis - 14 Jun 2006 6:22 PM - 3 messages

Hey, I wrote a simple provider, and right now I am trying to add it using the following command: add-pssnapin PSProviderTest it fails and gives me this error: "no windows powershell snapins are available for version 1" Does that mean that no custom providers can be added or am I doing something ...

Get System root

ZTX - 14 Jun 2006 8:39 AM - 2 messages

I want to get the path of Windows system, in command line we can get it by using %SystemRoot%, How can I get it in VBScript. Thanks ZTX ...

Deleting events from Event Log

Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca - 14 Jun 2006 2:13 AM - 2 messages

Does anybody know if it's possible to delete specific events from the Application Log? For example: I need to delete all events logged with ID 1001. Thanks folks!!! Felipe ...

Launch hta file from within VBScript

Pete Gomersall - 13 Jun 2006 8:52 PM - 3 messages

Hi all, Is there any way to load and control a hta file from within VBScript like can be done for html? This works for IE Set objIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") objIE.navigate "file://c:\test.html" objIE.left=200 ...

Need tips on script for networked devices inventory

Marcus - 13 Jun 2006 4:59 PM - 2 messages

I am writing a script for my company that will report to me all of the devices that are attached to the network, and gives me information about them such as ip's macs, make and model of the device (if possible), description of ...

Writing file from one server to another

Daniel.Phillips - 13 Jun 2006 4:03 PM - 4 messages

I have the following script that is working great. Added code after objOutPutFile.Close to copy the output file to another server. I am not getting any data in the file. Any suggestions???? objOutputFile.writeLine "Total for server " & "," & strComputer ...

Find out which passwords are expired

Carolanne - 13 Jun 2006 3:19 AM - 4 messages

Hello - I need to run a script that will tell me which user accounts on the domain are expired. This script doesn't seem to be working. Please help! Thanks in advance! On Error Resume Next Const SEC_IN_DAY = 86400 ...

Getting Powershell to output to a chart or Internet Explorer

Paul.Edlund - 12 Jun 2006 9:47 PM - 2 messages

Can someone please post an example of how to create a chart or output to IE? ...

Explicit typing in Jscript?

Joe Nastasi - 12 Jun 2006 5:28 PM - 5 messages

When I try to explicity specify the type of variables or functions in JScript, everything works fine if I compile the script using jsc.exe. But if I try to run the script in Windows Script Host using wscript.exe, I get ...

Log on script

Lisa - 12 Jun 2006 3:45 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I use log on script to map a network drive for all the domain end users. It works fine for everyone except one who always loss the mapping, but if log off and log on back, it comes back. ...