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Score How to quickly create a scheduled task on 30 Windows servers
Spin - 22 Jul 2006 9:20 PM - 4 messages
I made a scheduled task to take a daily system state backup (using the built-in Windows back-up) of one Windows 2003 server.  Works great.  Now I want to do this on 30 servers, but I do not want to have to visit each ...
Score activate directive
Keppler - 22 Jul 2006 12:30 PM - 6 messages
All, is possible to activate a local directive (windows 2000) via script? ...
Score Keep users from stopping scripts or batch files
Bill Freeze - 21 Jul 2006 9:34 PM - 5 messages
How can I keep users from stopping a batch file that is called by our vb login script?  Basically, our login script checks the date of the users last backup and if it is greater than 13 days automatically runs a batch file ...
Score WMI Query cannot Extract Event Message
JP - 21 Jul 2006 8:45 PM - 2 messages
I used the script below to extract errors fronm the Application log on a Windows 2003 server.  It worked well with the exception of one of the application errors, which showed everything but the event message. objEvent.Message below returns NULL when reading the said application error. ...
Score lastlogin time
Wade Barrett - 21 Jul 2006 7:00 PM - 2 messages
Afternoon: I have the below script and i know its out of date and will not work against 2003, could someone direct me in the right direction. This is the Line giving me the issue below       If oUser.Get("lastLogonTimestamp") => 2592000 then ...
Score Script to List Forwarders for all DNS Servers in the Forest
Alex - 21 Jul 2006 5:05 PM - 3 messages
Hi all, Would anybody be so kind to post a script which would collect the following information about the DNS servers in the forest: 1. DNS Server Name: 2. All Information on the Forwarders page of the DNS server Properties page: ...
Score Returning computer attributes
scott - 21 Jul 2006 12:38 PM - 4 messages
I am trying to create a script that identifies machines that have been created but not added to the domain.  My script is a simple edit from the script center and looks like this. 'On Error Resume Next Set objComputer = GetObject _ ...
Score Calling external script's SUB or Function
kwyap - 21 Jul 2006 9:27 AM - 2 messages
Hi all, I'm designing a VBscript for administration. Is that anyway to call Sub or Function from external VBscript? Thanks and welcome for any idea.. Regards, kwyap ...
Score AD user managment
Simone - 21 Jul 2006 6:56 AM - 2 messages
In a window 2003 domain, I need to manage users by a script. This script have to: 1.find a user in AD by only by user name (Users are in different ou .. so I can't indicate the exactly LDAP string). ...
Score 90 Days not Loggin
Nagesh C Samant - 21 Jul 2006 4:39 AM - 2 messages
I have wnidows 2000 Active directory, I Want to create a list of users who are not logged in last 90 days in the AD Can any one help me to do the same ...
Score what is Powershell
JoJo - 20 Jul 2006 8:18 PM - 5 messages
Folks: What is  PowerShell ? Thanks ...
Score Need to change DNS servers in the TCP/IP settings of network adapt
DPoppel - 20 Jul 2006 6:35 PM - 3 messages
I got the script below from Microsoft's web site.  It does what I want to do, but to all NIC's.  I only want to change the DNS server settings on the 1st NIC. ...
Score list records in SQL Table
Jamesraay Network Systems Engineer - 20 Jul 2006 6:01 PM - 3 messages
Hello,   I have an msde2000 BES management database with a table called UserConfig. This contains all the users in our Blackberry environment. This table has a column called "MailboxSMTPAddr". I have a vbscript that will count the records in the table. But I would like to modify this script to copy the ...
Score Remote instance of Powershell ?
Varun Bansal - 20 Jul 2006 5:34 PM - 6 messages
Hi all, Scenario: Machine A : Exhange 2007 and Powershell installed Machine B : Powershell installed I want to execute Exchange cmdlets programmatically from my application which runs on Machine B. In my application code, I'm trying to add an Exchange snapin to execute the cmdlets. The code looks like this. ...
Score Vidio contro;;er
Dennis - 20 Jul 2006 3:54 PM - 5 messages
Hi, Can anyone help. On checking why I cant play DVDs I find out there is no Vidio controller installed what can I do ...
Score List Printer Port Properties
Alexandre Teixeira - 20 Jul 2006 3:39 PM - 2 messages
Hi all! I found a script that list all printer ports configured on my server, but it only works on Windows XP or 2003! I need to get information of my printer ports configured on my Windows 2K server... Anybody knows if with some kind of update it could be possible? I tried to ...
Score PowerShell : Return of experience
Sylvain Mottet - 20 Jul 2006 10:06 AM - 7 messages
Hi All, I'm currently looking at Monad, first observation : WMI is alway used .... I appreciate this new language because more powerfull but i'm a little bit disappointed because of a lake of library ... I try to developp a full monad program based for defragementing all servers ...
Score dump and replace ACLs
Andreas Wöckl - 20 Jul 2006 9:30 AM - 4 messages
Hi Group! I'd need a tool that can dump an ACL List into a file and is also able to process a textfile to set new ACLs. My goal is that I have a default folder in which I modify the permissions. If I need a new folder I will take the ...
Score Memory consumption PowerShell
Thorsten Hindermann - 20 Jul 2006 6:43 AM - 5 messages
Hello Group! I have following problem. We want to use the powershell with an Identity Management System. Within a task from the IM System we must start a script per person to make actions e.g. create a homedir path, set ACLs ... ...
Score IE proxy configuration script
MartinX - 19 Jul 2006 7:22 PM - 4 messages
Are there any sample VBS scripts for enabling the automatic configuration script in IE? The setting is under TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS > CONNECTIONS > LAN SETTINGS. I need a script to do the following: 1) Enable "automatically detect settings" ...
Score ADSI and LDAP Queries
Mandoskippy - 19 Jul 2006 5:27 PM - 5 messages
I have a script that uses two Hey Scripting Guy examples and tries to merge them with no luck. I need to list all the domain controllers in a domain. [link] ...
Score Cipher.exe script
Scot - 19 Jul 2006 5:27 PM - 2 messages
When using the cipher.exe command (cipher /r) on my XP machine, I am prompted to password protect the .pfx file.  I have tried to script this command using a text file to provide the password (cipher /r:efskey < c:\pswd.txt), but it ...
Score Read data from a file and then put it in a variable or array
Sean - 19 Jul 2006 3:24 PM - 2 messages
I am trying to write a script that reads  from a .tsv file and then places the data into a variable or an array. This is the file -- -- Description    WebFldrs XP    Reflection for UNIX and Digital 8.0.4    ...
Score PowerShell Registry Values
amack - 19 Jul 2006 1:34 PM - 2 messages
I'd like to reset the list of URLs that display in IE's address bar.   I do a lot of testing and it helps to be able to press F4 and select some predetermined URLs.  I can get to the correct Key here: ...
Score Enabling of audio on remote PCs
Goud - 19 Jul 2006 12:33 PM - 2 messages
Hi I have a task of enabling the audio on the users PCs which are in a domain manually by going into the BIOS and enabling the audio and also loading the drivers for the device. Can anyone suggest me if there is any possibility of doing the above thing ...
Score Is this possible, Please read and let me know
Keen to learn - 18 Jul 2006 9:37 PM - 2 messages
Hi there team May be some one can help me In my company I am responsible for lots of non user accounts, which are being used for various purposes. I don't have access to AD or any thing like ...
Score how to setup a printer script to add printers on the client side
Dan - 18 Jul 2006 6:39 PM - 2 messages
I have windows 2003 server, and have all my printers installed with their drivers,. I already have a startup script that runs, but is there some script I can add to my existing script to automatically install the printers on the ...
Score Splash Screen Script
Steve Willis - 18 Jul 2006 4:18 PM - 6 messages
Management has directed that a legal notice (This computer is state property……You can be shot for misuse….etc) appear each time a user/computer logs onto the network. I have researched several ways of doing this, but they ...
Score Script for RDC
JoJo - 18 Jul 2006 10:21 AM - 4 messages
Folks: Looking for a script (DOS/VBscript/etc ) that would allow me to remotely switch on Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) on a windows XP machine Thanks, John. ...
Score Virtual Server Backup Script
Jörg Schreiber - 17 Jul 2006 6:53 PM - 2 messages
Hello, how can i backup virtual hdds with scripting? Let´s say at 2 a.m. the virtual machine has to stop. A Task backups the virtual hdd file via xcopy. Then the virtual machine hast to start again. ...
Score ADSI pwdLastSet (to UTC or not to UTC)
//o// [MVP] - 17 Jul 2006 3:32 PM - 4 messages
I'm a bit confused about the ADSI pwdLastSet  int64 value, I was thinking this was an UTC value, but it seems to be in the Local Time: Also the PasswordLastChanged method of the ADSI COM object will return a ...
Score Help with Script
Paul - 17 Jul 2006 1:04 PM - 3 messages
Hello, I need some help with the code below. This code will fail to run successfully if this location in the registry doesnt exist. HKCU\\Printers\\DeviceOld. That would be great if we could see if it is valid before we proceed with the function or popup a message saying the location ...
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