Server Newsgroups: Scripting for Windows Server

Notify users with a Popup Message whenever they print a document

HERDEM - 30 Mar 2007 12:12 PM - 2 messages

Hello, I have a question about Print Notifications.I want to show a popup message to the end user saying not to forget his/her printouts near the printer for security issues. I wrote a vb script using WMI.You can see the script code below..I put the ...

Retreive user information and export to excel

Rick - 30 Mar 2007 10:00 AM - 2 messages

Hi I need the following information from Ad Firs & Lastname + Logonaccount But only from the location nl.batgen.com/amstelveen/users Within users are lot of other containers. Could you help me out ? ...

print's

CCARLOSP - 30 Mar 2007 9:18 AM - 3 messages

Hi Can you please help to write a script to find the port and ip utilization from printers THANKS ...

Need to Install a Certificate in vbscript

Raymond Vought - 29 Mar 2007 8:25 PM - 4 messages

Is there any way to install a certificate in vbscript? It seems like the certificate manager, or whatever it is that keeps track of what certificates are installed, should have a scripting interface or programmatic hooks so we could do this. But I haven't seen anything so far. ...

Modify lastlogon attribute

Javier Rosales - 29 Mar 2007 5:44 PM - 2 messages

Hi i want to modify the last logon attribute so I can use this script that ive founf [link] in a lab environment than im setting up for a domain migration, I want to ...

vbs script to delete folders.

bradj - 29 Mar 2007 5:32 PM - 2 messages

How would I modify this script so that it deleted folders older than n, days? Thanks for any assistance. 'Delete the Oldest Subfolder Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("C:\Backups") Set colSubfolders = objFolder.Subfolders ...

Password changes

lambrd - 29 Mar 2007 5:24 PM - 2 messages

Playing with the password change script for local machine admin user and finding that it will change computers in any domain but will not change computers in workgroups. The script is from the script gallery and looks like this. On Error Resume Next ...

list folder size without using WMI

TomKing - 29 Mar 2007 12:58 AM - 3 messages

Hi, I am trying to retrieve folder sizes on a mapped drive which comes from an Apple Filer. I tried with WMI from local computer, but nothing can be retrieved. Are there any ways to get the sizes info from a OS without wmi. If ...

How to tally group membership for huge group +10k accounts?

Sport - 28 Mar 2007 11:10 PM - 4 messages

Need a count of users/computers in a group membership that is upwards of 13-15k accounts. ADSI is no go and stops at 1500 ADO putters out at 6110 csvde dies at 1500 as well ldifde gets a bit more, at least 10k, but the format is terrible. ...

Batch file syntax for escape character HELP needed!

jenlbenson - 28 Mar 2007 6:13 PM - 3 messages

I use a batch script to create new user accounts, and part of the script creates the user's logon script. One line in the logon script should read: copy %logonserver%\netlogon\cusrmgr.exe c:\start_script\cusrmgr.exe When I run the new user script it creates a logon script that reads: ...

Compare and Add AD Groups?

JLecht - 28 Mar 2007 4:04 PM - 2 messages

I was wondering if anyone had a script built that compares two groups and if the user exists in both groups then add them to a third group. Thanks for any reply, J Lecht ...

CPU utilization and mem usage

George - 28 Mar 2007 1:54 PM - 2 messages

Hi, Can you please help to write a script to find the cpu utilization and memory usage at a point of time ...

WMI Call

Gerhard Schwarzer - 28 Mar 2007 9:16 AM - 2 messages

Hi! I want check the content of the administrators group on a remote computer using wmi. Possible? Whow? Like WMIC PATH Win32_Group GET CAPTION /VALUE This shows all groups in the domain, how to get local content? ..... Thx ...

Modifying AD User attribute

spock - 28 Mar 2007 2:59 AM - 5 messages

Does anyone have a script that reads and Execl spread sheet and matches username in AD with username in the spreadsheet, then modifies the "wwwhomepage" and put a value in the AD general user attribute (web page field)? Clarification: I want read a list of usernames from a file and then search the entire AD ...

Where the Active Directory User logged on

Deepak Vashistha - 28 Mar 2007 1:57 AM - 4 messages

How to find a user.... logged on which computer in the network how the get that particular name of the computer ...

Help me I'm new

Jenn - 28 Mar 2007 1:52 AM - 3 messages

i am having trouble with vbs scripts. are they all supposed to be written in notebook or is there another program i can write them on. please help. i have to pass this class and my instructor refuses to give me a straight answer ...

search AD for old pc's that are on the domain

mslusher - 28 Mar 2007 12:17 AM - 2 messages

I have not been able to find a script that will tell me how long it has been since a pc has logged into the domain. We are replacing quite a few pc's and it is hard to manually keep up with what pc's have been taken out of service. ...

DLL Permission

Golden_au - 27 Mar 2007 11:55 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I created a test dll and use regsvr32 test.dll to register it, but when I call the class from VBS or ASp, I got the erro as following: Project1 (0x800A0046) Permission denied any idea of the permissions? many thanks for any advice. ...

Adding Multiple Users to Multiple groups

Simon G - 27 Mar 2007 11:06 PM - 4 messages

I'm sure it's possible but i'm not sure how the code would work for this. Basically i have a spreadsheet where column a contains all the distinguished names of the users, and column b contains all the distinguished names of the ...

Learning scripting?

james brady - 27 Mar 2007 11:03 PM - 2 messages

Where and what is the best way to learn VB scripting? Is VB scripting the same as programming in VB6 or VB.NET? Are the commands different? ...

how to show ip address, hostname on the right portion of the screen on server 2003

goldbarry - 27 Mar 2007 8:59 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I know that there is option to show ip addresses, hostname , etc on the right portion of the screen on windows server 2003. is any one knows how to do that ? Thank you for your help ...

Active Directory Scripting!

Pilot - 27 Mar 2007 8:19 AM - 2 messages

Hello; is that possible to create a script to do the following: 1- when a new user is created in active directory the script dump the usernames and the OU where the user is created to a file? Please help. ...

Determining file type?

Duncan Smith - 26 Mar 2007 1:40 PM - 2 messages

the Unix 'file' command? It would be nice to be able to determine whether a given file is an .exe, .dll, a UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.? Many thanks, Duncan. ...

is it possible to map a network printer to a domain users pc?

adch - 26 Mar 2007 10:53 AM - 4 messages

I am using a batch script and i want to know if it is possible to map a shared network printer to all domain users pc's when they logon to domain. I found the net use command (net use lpt1 \\server\sharedprintername) ...