Server Newsgroups: Scripting for Windows Server

Robocopy error since migration 2000 -> 2003

siciliano - 22 Dec 2006 3:01 PM - 6 messages

Hi folks We want to MOVE the content of a shared folder to another folder. It has worked fine till we migrated from Windows 2000 Server (SP4) to 2003 R2. We are receiving now this error message: ERROR 32 (0x00000020) Deleting Source Directory ...

Change PasswordLastChanged value

Andre Thomasse - 21 Dec 2006 6:56 PM - 2 messages

I use the following script to change the value. But i receive the following error: Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment 'objUser.PasswordLastchanged' someone any ideas or suggestion? Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://cn=lizzy van beek,ou=test,ou=totallan,dc=totallan,dc=nl") ...

logon script

Gladius - 21 Dec 2006 6:36 PM - 2 messages

Hi, How i can redirect the output to a html file using logon script?. I have a script, which retrieves users information like name, title, company, office phone, cell, fax and email from Active directory. I can able to run the program using command prompt cscript filename.vbs > ...

Scheduled Defrag Script

Josip - 21 Dec 2006 6:12 PM - 3 messages

I am wondering how I can get this script: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set objNewJob = objWMIService.Get("Win32_ScheduledJob") errJobCreated = objNewJob.Create _ ("Notepad.exe", "********123000.000000-420", _ ...

Create List Of Folder User Permissions

GMan - 21 Dec 2006 5:22 PM - 4 messages

Hey All, previous sys admin had issues with assigning folder permissions to groups. His solution was to put user names in the folder security tabs. We want to correct this with groups. Initial investigation shows that usernames are embedded in multiple folders ...

User info to Excel sheet

Andre Thomasse - 21 Dec 2006 8:16 AM - 2 messages

Hi All, I want to create a script to put some user info in a excel sheet. It is important for me to have the expire date of every user. I have copied a script and made some adjustment for the expiredate settings. But i cannot get ...

Script to list add all domain zones

Ahmad - 21 Dec 2006 7:39 AM - 3 messages

Hi ! i've setup a new server that should be working as secondary for 2 other servers.... so it's very terrible to write eache zone my self to be add to as secondary forward or reverse zone from the original ones. ...

Retreive reservation range from DHCP server

Vinicius Moura Santos - 20 Dec 2006 5:17 PM - 3 messages

Folks, I need to retrieve the reservation range of my DHCP servers using a automated solution like VBScript, I already checked the WMI classes but didn't found any class to help me in this issue. ...

Interesting batch file "feature"

USlacker - 19 Dec 2006 6:58 PM - 5 messages

I found an interesting issue trying to do math with a batch file variable and 'set /a'. Maybe someone can explain why this won't work. I want to count how many times a 'for /f' loop executes and output the ...

move a very big group of mailboxes to a server outside

Emre Seren - 19 Dec 2006 2:11 PM - 2 messages

of the administrative group. does anyone have a script for this? or anyone knows a good solution for this? how can I do this move with less effects on the users. thank you all... emre ...

setting user accounts mailbox size limit script

Emre Seren - 19 Dec 2006 2:09 PM - 2 messages

hi everyone, I am looking for a script to change all the mailbox size limits to a default. I made the changes over AD by creating a mailbox store policy but some of the users had been changed by hand before. I can't change these. I ...

How can I check that a file has been succesfully copied?

Veets - 19 Dec 2006 2:04 PM - 7 messages

Hi there, I have a batch file running on a Windows 2003 server which does the following: 1) Connects to a remote FTP server & copies some zip files locally to a temp folder 2) The zip files are then uncompressed to a main folder ...

Decrypt windows logon credentials

Ashwin - 19 Dec 2006 1:43 PM - 4 messages

I would like to retrieve the windows login information of an user via script. Need help on this urgently.. Regards.. Ashwin ...

Help to Create AppPool From template with vbs

raf - 19 Dec 2006 1:37 PM - 6 messages

Hi all I found a lot of examples of how create a AppPool in IIS (IIS://./w3svc/AppPools), but this App is created with the default setting, and I need create this App using another App as template. ...

I need a script to make myself the NT AUTHORITY, not Dell.

Smarty Pants - 19 Dec 2006 9:20 AM - 3 messages

How do I give an Administrator(s) account system authority. I want to be the boss of the world. This is my computer and I want stop and start services. Have script? ...

Check Disk Space

Pogo - 19 Dec 2006 8:58 AM - 3 messages

Hi, I would like to check the entire space of a disk with win32. I need the function wich makes it. I've the following script checking the FREESpace of each disk: import win32com.client strComputer = "." objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") ...

script to delete old computer in AD

Wescotte - 18 Dec 2006 4:28 PM - 3 messages

i got maybe 270 computer in my domain but i have over 400 entrie in my domain. i was looking for a script that could erase computer as a exemple who would have been inactive for 60 day or something like that ?a script that ...

block ip address in ftp site

Louie Lubangco - 18 Dec 2006 7:01 AM - 2 messages

Hello, I've seen in my event log that several ip addresses are trying to access my ftp site. is there a script to block it automatically after several tries?and/or notify me once an attack is happening? Thanks and Best Regards ...