Server Newsgroups: Scripting for Windows Server

Help with making the software installation process quicker on Win2k3 server

Yobbo - 4 Nov 2006 3:27 PM - 11 messages

Hi All Just had a Win 2003 server with active directory put in at our school and found out from the supplier that you still have to install each piece of software onto each client machine. I thought one of the benefits of this kind of setup was that you could ...

Old Monad script does not work when used with powershell

Moonrox - 4 Nov 2006 12:35 AM - 4 messages

$searcher.SearchScope = [System.DirectoryServices.SearchScope].subtree Exception setting "SearchScope": "Cannot convert null to type "System.Directory Services.SearchScope" due to invalid enumeration values. Specify one of the fol lowing enumeration values and try again. The possible enumeration values are "B ...

Create multiple users

zeb2100 - 3 Nov 2006 11:10 PM - 3 messages

Hello, I am using the createuser.vbs by Richard Mueller. I can get everything to work except assigning the user to the group I want. I think I am having a problem with the correct syntax in the spreadsheet. I tried the following in ...

FTP - List active sessions?

MGats - 3 Nov 2006 10:10 PM - 2 messages

Does anyone know of a way to list the current active FTP sessions from a vbscript? I would like to get the same information that the IIS management GUI provides. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Mike ...

Enumerating printers on a MS clustered print server

Paul Dunn - 3 Nov 2006 7:56 PM - 2 messages

I am using the following script to enumerate printers on a Windows 2003 Server print server: ***Start of Script *** Dim WriteFile, strComputer, fso strComputer = "dc3" WriteFile = "C:\temp\WriteFile.txt" Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set WriteFile = fso.CreateTextFile(WriteFile, True) ...

Question about Regestry and script

Valborn - 3 Nov 2006 7:18 PM - 2 messages

Hi Guys I need to know how i can to make a script that configure remotly into the servers (contained in *.txt file) some keys from regedit, for example, "TimeZoneInformation" from regedit. Thanks in advance ...

Search Active directory

George Kondylis - 3 Nov 2006 6:26 PM - 2 messages

Hello, I have a network with multiple users and i want to search for users who have been applied a certain policy. Is it possible to do this through a script? ...

Add Accounts from a Trusted Domain

Alan - 3 Nov 2006 4:38 PM - 2 messages

I need to add users accounts from a trusted domain to Domain Local groups in a trusting domain using a scripted process. I can do this using ADUC in the trusting domain, though the process prompts me for credentials for the trusted domain. ...

How do I list resources with NTFS Permissions from an AD group (Da

Mikaelvv - 3 Nov 2006 1:22 PM - 2 messages

I have been unable to find a utility / script which I could use to list all my computer resources (shared folders) which are protected by NTFS permissions. I (my bosses) need a list of folders with read / write permissions for each ...

CPU temperature

eld - 3 Nov 2006 12:15 PM - 3 messages

Hello. Is it possible to monitor CPU and HDD temperature from VBScript ...

Getting entries that only appear in 1 of 2 files

Marco Shaw - 3 Nov 2006 12:59 AM - 2 messages

I've got 2 files with several entries. There are some entries that will be contained in both files. I only want to output the entries that are *not* found in each file. What is the best way to do this? I'm pretty much stuck with VBScript. ...

how to remove software using window scripting

hommer - 2 Nov 2006 10:28 PM - 2 messages

Hi, Experts, I don't know where this question belongs to, but I will ask anyway. My network admin has asked me to come up with a piece of windows scripting, which will be saved as myUninstall.bat on clients' desktop machines (OS ...

Can dsquery and other AD tools be copied to XP?

Marco Shaw - 2 Nov 2006 7:27 PM - 2 messages

Can dsquery and other AD tools be copied to XP? Will that give me the ability to run the tools against the AD the desktop is joined to? Marco ...

Retreiving Encrypted files from the C:\

Sunshine - 2 Nov 2006 4:32 PM - 2 messages

Hello, I wanted to create a VBscript which give me all the Encrypted files on the C:\ and save it on a file. Thanks ...

How force shutdown a pc in the network?

quasar - 2 Nov 2006 10:40 AM - 5 messages

Dear All, Please tell me how can I forceshutdown a PC in the network from another PC or server? It may be a domain based, Windows or linux based network? Anytype of help highly appriciated... Thanks, Quasar ...

Win32_Product

Julián Redondo - 2 Nov 2006 10:09 AM - 2 messages

I will like obtain all products installed in a windows 2003 Server. For this i have developed this script. Could someone help why do not execute correctly. Dim arrServidores(1) arrServidores(0)="Server00" 'arrServidores(1)="Server01" For i=0 To UBound(arrServidores) ...

Domain Startup Scripting

Shawn Romine - 1 Nov 2006 10:07 PM - 4 messages

If there is a better forum for this please let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I work for a library and we are trying to automate a lot of maintenance routines as we have numerous branches over a large area. I am hoping someone ...

2003server WMI Function Rererence

fixitchris via WinServerKB.com - 1 Nov 2006 6:59 PM - 2 messages

Does anyone have any good reference material for the functions available to 2003 server, such as RDTOGGLE , etc.??? thanks ...

Listing links inside of word documents

Jake George - 1 Nov 2006 4:25 PM - 2 messages

I need to know how to open mutiple word documents that have embedded links and write the complete path information to a file or display, and to be able to change multiple links mainly the ones that contain (\\UNC) paths. ...

WMI GetObject Permission Denied err.number = 70

fixitchris via WinServerKB.com - 1 Nov 2006 3:55 PM - 3 messages

What could be the possible causes of the permission denied error on this line? Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\pc_name\root\CIMV2") Thanks Chris ...

printer script

Sher - 1 Nov 2006 2:00 PM - 2 messages

Hi all, I found the following script to assign a default printer to a computer instead of to a user. Set WshNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\PrintServer1\Xerox300" WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\PrintServer1\Xerox300" My problem is that I don't know how to use scripts. The above script is ...

vbs script on remote pc's

HDI - 1 Nov 2006 12:36 PM - 2 messages

Hi, We have remote sites with a different ip range (headquarter: 192.168.1.* domain, Remote site A: 192.168.2.* workgroup, remote site B: 192.168.2.* workgroup ,...) When I run a script on range 192.168.1.* the script works and I can ...

Remove printers

mcp - 31 Oct 2006 10:05 PM - 9 messages

hello everyone, im having problem with couple of things please help.. first problem is i installed a network printer locally on server 2003 and shared that for clients few months ago. I know dont need that printer so i have deleted that from the server, but when users browse ...

Setting permissions on Public Folder

Chester - 31 Oct 2006 3:33 PM - 4 messages

I am trying to write a script that will create a public folder and then set the client permissions on that folder. The following script creates the folder: Set Outlook = CreateObject ("Outlook.Application") Set OLNS = Outlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI") ...

Joining a domain

Oriane - 31 Oct 2006 11:22 AM - 4 messages

Hi, I intended to use the "netdom move" command to move a computer from a NT to an AD domain. However, I have also some other stuff to do beforehand (copying files, renaming dll...) and I would prefer to use scripting. ...

How to write script to start a Linux program remotely from Windows Server 2003?

yangliang_mr - 30 Oct 2006 11:51 PM - 3 messages

Hello, I'm the Admin of both Windows Server 2003 and Linux RedHat Enterprise Server machine. I want to remotely start a Linux program on the Linux server from Windows Server. What kind of utility can I use to finish ...

LDAP filter on DistinguishedName - wildcards don't work

ASGMikeG - 30 Oct 2006 11:17 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I'm trying to select only AD users whose distinguishedName contaings the word 'General' i.e. *General*. Sample DN: CN=Michael Green,OU=General,OU=SYDNEY,OU=ASGGroup Users,DC=asggroup,DC=com,DC=au I have the following LDAP based User filter working : ...

search for server downtime incidences

balta - 30 Oct 2006 11:05 PM - 2 messages

Hi I need to provide an outage list for a group of about 30 Windows NT/2000/2003 servers belonging to the domain. I thought a script would be more efficient that searching through 1 by 1 the event logs of servers. ...

Alerted when a folder is created

nospam@newsgroup.com - 30 Oct 2006 9:49 PM - 2 messages

Hello; Does anyone know of a way that an alert can sent when ever a folder is created? Thanks ...

Show current CPU and MEMORY usage

Avi G - 30 Oct 2006 7:00 PM - 5 messages

Hi, i'm looking for script that when i run it on a machine he will give me the current cpu usage and current memory usage for that second on the machine. how i do it??? THX ...

script

James - 30 Oct 2006 5:14 PM - 2 messages

Hi I would like users to map to a network drive based upon the first character in their username. For instance, if the first character in the username falls between A & K, then the user will have his home ...

script logon session...

as2pik - 30 Oct 2006 12:10 PM - 5 messages

hello all, I'm new on forum, and completely beginner on VBS. I'm looking to create a script : - disconnect all my logical drives, - connect a new one. Thanks for your help. --- gilles b --- Vendée --- France --- ...

Disseminate Outlook 2003 signature

Ashpoint - 30 Oct 2006 2:24 AM - 4 messages

I want to disseminate the "signature" for Outlook 2003 email messages. My client wants every email message leaving his business to have a generic signature message at the bottom of each email. For my part, I would like to include the UserName and Email Address in the ...