Server Newsgroups: Scripting for Windows Server

xcopy date problem

SW - 9 Sep 2006 5:18 PM - 4 messages

Hi, Apologies if this is the wrong group, my problem is with a batch file, not strictly a server script. I want to make a batch file on a Windows Server 2003 machine with the following command: xcopy *.* s:\folder /d:%DATE% /e ...

trouble in connecting with wmi accross NAT

Sergio - 8 Sep 2006 2:08 PM - 2 messages

Dear all, this is my scenario I need to manage some servers in the remote offices. I have a cisco pix-firewall and also the remote networks have it. A remote server ( I will call it MYSERVER ) is reachabled with the ...

Adding Static Entries to Wins Server

Becky - 8 Sep 2006 5:56 AM - 2 messages

I need to add static entry to a WINS server from a text file. I know that you can do this using netsh if you build a batch file, but I want to populate the entries to be run, dynamically from a text file into the script or batch ...

Problems creating script...

Ed - 7 Sep 2006 8:07 PM - 3 messages

Greetings, I sucessfully installed a msi package in silent mode from the command prompt. I'm having trouble deploying the application thru a GPO. I can create the package but the application doesn't install. Event viewer reports fatal ...

making a copy script

making a Script to copy Local drive - 7 Sep 2006 5:24 PM - 2 messages

I am new to scripting and i am trying to come up with a script that will backup or copy the entire contents of my local drive (C) but the closest thing that i can find is how to copy a folder. can somebody help me. ...

wmic ntevent

P Brent - 7 Sep 2006 4:38 PM - 2 messages

Iam trying to use wmic to return the eventlog properties from security log. What i want is to filter out records based on the Logon Type. It seem I can only do this by checking the 'Message' property for the Logon ...

CopyFile

Abda - 7 Sep 2006 3:46 PM - 2 messages

I need to copy a a file to several directories and need to use a variable in the CopyFile destination arguments. How I can I do that ex. FSO.CopyFile "Source File", Detination Variable, TRUE I seems that it doesn'n accept that ...

How to enumerate domains in the forest?

Alex - 7 Sep 2006 3:44 PM - 2 messages

Hello All, I am looking for a script which should list the FQDN (DNS) names of the domains in the forest. Additional challenge is that the forest contains several trees. Thank you for your help, in advance! Alex ...

unattended ftp with powershell

Robbie - 7 Sep 2006 4:22 AM - 3 messages

Hi I want to write an unattended ftp script using powershell. My script works fine with cmd.exe, however it does not work using powershell. I can connect to the Server, however it won't login automatically, when I have provided the username and password in the script file. I would be ...

OU Enumeration

Troy Wilfred - 6 Sep 2006 9:35 PM - 4 messages

I'm looking for the method of enumerating the OUs in a OU Container. Can someone give me a code snippit? Thanks, Troy ...

Start and Stop a program

Kris - 6 Sep 2006 8:35 PM - 7 messages

I need to schedule a particular program on my server to start and stop once a week. The program does not run as a service. It is a program that is in startup. I simply need the program to automatically close and then reopen. ...

CPU Hyperthreading

Ruediger - 6 Sep 2006 6:49 PM - 2 messages

I am gathering infos about our 200 servers with a wsh script. When I query the CPUs "objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Processor" I am counting the processors. E.g. when hyperthreading is enable I have 4 processors, if it is disabled or ...

Problems with GetEx("Member") and more than 1000 computers

Hans - 6 Sep 2006 10:58 AM - 3 messages

Hallo, When I try to read a AD group with more than 1000 computers in it, I only get 1000 computers. How can I change it that I can see all the computers? Thanks Hans Set objGroup = GetObject ("LDAP://CN='group',DC='Domain'") ...

Script to Restart PC at 3:00am everyday

cisconoobie - 6 Sep 2006 1:45 AM - 6 messages

Anyone know if a script like this is possible ? ...

Local User Accounts

Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca - 5 Sep 2006 9:38 PM - 2 messages

I'm using the following script to get all local user accounts on thousands of servers: Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFileName = objFSO.OpenTextFile("Servers.txt", 1, 0) Set objOutputFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("Local Users.txt",True) Set objNet = CreateObject("WScript.NetWork") ...

exchange script question (cross posted)

Jimmy - 5 Sep 2006 7:49 PM - 5 messages

i need to use vbscript to query particular exchange servers to return the number of mailboxes any particular mailbox store contains. anyone have an example? thanks ...

detecting CDROM - CD READ / WRITE

IT Staff - 5 Sep 2006 1:30 AM - 3 messages

We have 600 pc. Need to find out whether any values in wmi or registries stated the CDROM in the pc has read/write function or purely read function. I know how to write vbscript or wmi, i only need to find out from forum ...

net use /home problem

TomKing - 4 Sep 2006 4:36 AM - 2 messages

Hi All, I am facing a very strange problem for my login script. I am using net use /home to map user's home directory. Recently I found this script doesn't work properly on our newly purchased Dell XP computers. ...