Server Newsgroups: Scripting for Windows Server

Configuring a printer port

vickerps - 1 Sep 2006 4:22 PM - 3 messages

Hi I am wondering if anyone can help me write a vbs script that would allow the changing of the IP address within an existing TCP/IP port. I have installed a network printer which has a TCP/IP Port setup and is ...

Scripting in Windows 2000 Advanced Server

zoeygirl - 1 Sep 2006 3:47 PM - 4 messages

I need to check to see if a service is running ie: "mssqlserver service", if it's not I then need to stop another service that is dependent on the "mssqlserver service which is clustered". Consequently I will then need to ...

Creating users from a text file

Kyle Winston - 1 Sep 2006 3:18 PM - 2 messages

I'm a student learning server and exchange server. i'm trying to write a script to create new users from a text file. any help would be appreciated. ...

Creating Logon script?

Matthias Gutehall - 1 Sep 2006 8:14 AM - 7 messages

Hi all, I'm new to scripting so I need some help. I would like to have a logon script that maps the shared folders on my 2003 server to the clients (windows xp sp2) depending which group they belong to. ...

Numbers of FTP sites, websites, virtual directories, etc.

Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca - 1 Sep 2006 3:13 AM - 3 messages

I would like to know if there is a way to count how many websites, FTP sites and virtual directories I have running on an IIS. I'll need to run a script on many servers to make sure that there is at ...

AutoLogon

Fred Chateau - 31 Aug 2006 11:42 PM - 4 messages

I have some programs that need to run continuously under a user account and unless there's another way, I'm assuming I must logon through Remote Desktop and leave a user instance running. I can start my applications using the Startup menu, but I was wondering ...

PowerShell the -ExcludeProperty switch not working?

John_CT - 31 Aug 2006 6:54 PM - 5 messages

I'm trying to use the following command to just get an individual propery and exclude the __* properties but its not working. Any Ideas or is this a problem in the beta? Get-WmiObject Win32_Bios | Select-Object -ExcludeProperty "_*" ...

Show group members account location

Paul Bergson - 31 Aug 2006 2:48 PM - 4 messages

Hello, I have a script that list out all members of the local domain security group, unfortunately it doesn't display if it is a local or domain account. Does anyone know the attribute or what ever it is I need to do to list this ...

Join a domain and add user to local computer Admin group....

rolltidega - 31 Aug 2006 1:46 PM - 2 messages

I have the wonderful task of merging the AD domain of our sister company into our AD domain. The domains are currently to complete separate forests so I am going to have a lot of work ahead of me. The question I have is a ...

Automaticaly close open files on windows server

Alain - 31 Aug 2006 11:43 AM - 2 messages

Hello, Can you please help me with a script that can close all opened files on a given server. Many Thanks in advance... ...

Query users from specific groups

Mihai Serban - 31 Aug 2006 11:09 AM - 2 messages

Hello, I want to extract from Active Directory all users who are membes of specific groups, starting with "ras". Can help me to resolv that problem? Thanks ...

Newbie to scripting. Printer Management Question.

Dale Galvin - 31 Aug 2006 9:49 AM - 3 messages

Hi. I'm looking to make some adjustment to our login scripts. These are vbscript. I want to have the script to check the availablity of a server before performing the mapped drive section of the login script. We have two servers SERVER1 and SERVER2. ...

move-mailbox cmdlet problem when invoked in c# code.

Parth - 31 Aug 2006 6:18 AM - 2 messages

Hi, I am trying to run move-mailbox cmdlet through c# code. Code is given below. I am running the code on Exchange 2007 Beta 2 server with UM, Mailbox, Hub Client Access roles installed. I keep getting followig exception : ...

Script for stop services and copy files

Dan - 30 Aug 2006 11:16 PM - 4 messages

Hi, Please help me with very hard work for me. I need a script which should: -stop one windows service (stopping take about 20 sec) - stop second windows service - when services are stopped - copy one folder C:\Program Files\MySoftware\Logs to another location (i.e. C:\temp) ...

Visitor's IP address

2007-User - 30 Aug 2006 9:02 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I have created a webpage in "geocities.sbcglobal..." I need to know if there is anyway to log my visitors information (like IP address,name, Etc.) in a file. I already have a script that gives me some information but I don't know how ...

Need Script that Enable/Disable USB Device

MA P - 30 Aug 2006 2:53 AM - 5 messages

I am looking for a script that will enable and disable USB device. If it is disabled, users are unable to insert USB flash drive or any device. And vise versa. ...

COM callbacks in cmldet

BM - 29 Aug 2006 9:12 PM - 2 messages

I am writing cmdlet where I make a call to a COM component via interop in a separate thread and I register a sink object to get callbacks from this component . The worker thread is in a STA as the ...

Force static DNS / Wins on Cisco VPN client

pdub - 29 Aug 2006 8:34 PM - 3 messages

I need to force the DNS & Wins servers that are used when someone connects over Cisco VPN connection. The Cisco VPN client installs another Cisco adapter which is disabled until the VPN session is established. The existing DNS and Wins servers are configured from DHCP after the session is ...

GetTempName() and file prefix

scriptor - 29 Aug 2006 6:03 PM - 2 messages

Folks, I notice that all the random file names returned by the FileSystemObject.GetTempName() method have a prefix 'rad' (Example: rad40E52.tmp rad62BE0.tmp rad48F14.tmp radF5ECF.tmp rad68E60.tmp rad6EA82.tmp rad11340.tmp rad7A3E1.tmp rad230D2.tmp radEB2D1.tmp ...

Scripting 101

texmansru47 via WinServerKB.com - 29 Aug 2006 5:43 PM - 5 messages

All, Brand new to Scripting, like not even sure how to start, what do I need, where do I setup scripts to practice, etc. Any "push" int he right direction would be very helpful. Thanks, Texman ...

stop services on multiple servers

shiptail - 29 Aug 2006 3:35 PM - 6 messages

hello, I need a script that can stop about 3 services on multiple servers at once. ...

Change File Ownership

Buzz - 29 Aug 2006 3:26 PM - 2 messages

The MS Script Repository shows how to retrieve a file or folder's owner; I'm looking to modify this in order to change the file owner on a W2K server. Anyone know where some examples reside? Thanks. ...

ScriptEngine

Zamdrist - 29 Aug 2006 3:23 PM - 3 messages

The VBScript function: ScriptEngine says it can return a string of either: JScript, VBScript or VBA. VBA? In what context does a VBScript script run VBA? It almost eludes to being able to use VBA functionalty in a VBScript, but I didn't think ...

Monitor Serial Number

riosf - 29 Aug 2006 3:08 PM - 3 messages

Hi everyone: I'm looking for a script to get the monitor serial number. I have been searching everywhere but not luck. Anyway has one? Thanks in advance. ...

Output to Excel Formatted

lmossolle - 29 Aug 2006 10:53 AM - 5 messages

I would like to have the output to excel, On the first lines I would like the headers and the data to follow on the lines below! Can someone please assist? Thanks, Lee On Error Resume Next Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10 ...

how to send mail from windows powershell /... incorporate a .NET-C

emwede - 29 Aug 2006 7:52 AM - 4 messages

Hi folks, I'm monitoring a server through monad scripts. There's some critical states where I want to notify the admins by Email. To achive this I wrote a simple c#-Class that incorporates SipleMapi-Sendmail Functionality over our ...

Moving files from one directory to another based on dates

GYIPT - 28 Aug 2006 7:41 PM - 2 messages

hello all, I want a script which will look into a certain folder and look at the date each file in that folder was created. Then if the file was created more than 6 months ago, i want the script to ...

Search Script

Paul - 28 Aug 2006 12:45 PM - 3 messages

Hello, Is there a way to search for MP3 files using WSH and VBscript? Im trying to get the total number of files and how much space they take up on a users system. Any Help with this would be much Appreciated. I was thinking that the ...

Macromedia Flash

JoJo - 27 Aug 2006 12:08 PM - 2 messages

Folks: I am looking at the audio version of one of my favorite books - Think & Grow Rich - located at [link] On this site are many embedded macromedia flash files. ...

enable/configure windows firewall on windows 2003 servers

deep - 27 Aug 2006 11:29 AM - 3 messages

Hi all we ned to enable to firewall for multplie servers (web servers ) most fo times we do this task thru GUI but now security hardening is to be standardized for more than 300 computers we cannot use GUI's for such tasks ...