Server Newsgroups: Scripting for Windows Server

Update Lots Of Users Phone number from Spreadsheet

JoeBhoy - 28 Sep 2007 9:13 PM - 4 messages

Hi, We recently had an office move and as such telephone numbers changed. Is there any way to update this info from an excel spreadsheet that has the new numbers ? ...

running interactive application remotely

ashkaan57 - 28 Sep 2007 6:52 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I need to install a fix on multiple servers. The fix, when run, requires the "Install" button to be pushed. Is there any way to script this to run remotely on multiple servers? I have a script that pushes ...

dag nap it I'm stumped

tonyr - 28 Sep 2007 2:33 PM - 6 messages

I have the following single line script running from a w2k3 server Send-SmtpMail -SmtpHost a.b.com -To d***@b.com -From d***@b.com -subject "tm down" if I run it as a user it works fine if I try to run it as a scheduled tasks ...

VBScript created to add printers to group in AD...

Syed - 28 Sep 2007 12:45 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I have added a script to add printers on the network to a particular group in GPO and its working absolutely fine. The problem is when i login to any server this script is run automatically and printers are added on that server ...

Script that will Add Registry Entry to HKLM\Softwares\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Run

M P - 28 Sep 2007 3:16 AM - 2 messages

I wanted to add an entry to the following registry path. Is it possible? ...

Renaming of mapped network drive lost after end of script

scOOBay - 27 Sep 2007 2:42 PM - 5 messages

Hi All, I got a problem with some of my workstations to rename mapped network drives. I do rename the network drives using VBScript: objShell.NameSpace(sDrive & "\").Self.Name = sCustomName My Problem is that the new name is only available when the script is ...

Recording AD Logons to SQL Database

kcadmin - 27 Sep 2007 1:02 PM - 9 messages

I've been trying to find a way to keep a running log of who logged on, when and from what pc by running the code below in my login script. The code works, but the csv file method is limited since it tends to lock up the file ...

Learning Vb script or Powershell

Allwyn - 27 Sep 2007 12:14 PM - 2 messages

I am new to scripting and want to learn, I m in confusion should I learn VB script or Powershell Any advice would be appreciated ...

Creating multiple users in AD from text file

Marvin Cummings - 27 Sep 2007 4:55 AM - 3 messages

I know it's possible to script the creation of a large number of generic users in AD, User1 - User500, but can this be done for a list of specifc names in a text file? In other words can the script call and create the names ...

automate the properties TCP/IP

gustavo - 26 Sep 2007 11:26 PM - 3 messages

It is possible to create a script to automate the properties TCP/IP on multiple clients, where this script takes to which properties TCP/IP that her belong(concern). Thank you for your help since they are too many equipments ...

Starting hosted application on startup

TJ - 26 Sep 2007 10:29 AM - 2 messages

Hi I am implementing a new server setup using W2003 Server and am wanting to automate as much as possible during user logon. We currently have a small peer2peer network. In the startup group of each machine there is are 2 ...

filter security log

inenewbl - 26 Sep 2007 3:44 AM - 2 messages

Hi all. I would like to retrieve object access logs on a particular folder from my security log as my security log contains too many other logs. I have enabled auditing on that particular folder. Is there a way i can filter ...

Filtering Group membership results

Fred Beck - 25 Sep 2007 8:30 PM - 4 messages

The following script is easy enough: Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://CN=GroupName,OU=Denver,DC=Fabricam,DC=com") arrMemberOf = objGroup.Getex("member") i = 0 For Each strMember In arrMemberOf i = i + 1 wscript.echo strMember ...

VBS to create local user and add to local amins

Chris - 25 Sep 2007 8:09 PM - 11 messages

Hiya, I can find scripts to create local user accounts but these need the PC name to be entered into the script Does anyone ahve one that can be ran on any PC? TIA ...

List Users and Attributes in Multiple Groups

DSchenk952 - 25 Sep 2007 5:56 PM - 6 messages

Hi, I'm relatively new to scripting and have run a search to find a script that will let me feed it a list of AD Groups and extract attributes for all the users in the groups. I have a small script that will let me retrieve the ...

Deleting FIles

Tesdall - 25 Sep 2007 5:42 PM - 6 messages

I have a very simple script : attrib -h c:\TrackitAudit.id 1>>\\10.65.0.11\report\%ComputerName%.txt 2>>&1 del c:\TrackitAudit.id 1>>\\10.65.0.11\report\%ComputerName%.txt 2>>&1 ...

using VBScript + a config

Ajit - 25 Sep 2007 4:08 PM - 2 messages

I am new to scripting..I found a text parsing script which works fine but I am trying to modify it to do the following..can someone point me to a link / help me get started. I am trying to parse a log file but want that following be set in a config ...

Amateur Scripter Question

meek - 25 Sep 2007 3:56 PM - 5 messages

I can't get my script to work on objects nestled in 2 OU levels deep. They only work in the 1st OU level. For example: OU=United States, OU=New York. If the object is in the New York OU, it doesn't work. If I move it up to the ...

Copy a file from one folder to another on the server

miles - 25 Sep 2007 8:40 AM - 4 messages

Hi I would appreciate any assistance with the fiollowing... very basic: take a copy of a file & dump it into another folder & overwrite previous version. eventually to be done overnight on the Server (running SBS 2003). but when i run the script: ...

Getting eventlogs in last 24 hours

Oliver Marshall - 24 Sep 2007 3:42 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I have a script that returns the eventlogs that have occurred on a specified day. However, i have a need to mod the script so that it returns the logs that have occurred within the last 24 hours (this being different to on a ...

Work around for lack of "If Exists"

Joseph - 24 Sep 2007 1:44 PM - 5 messages

Good day all, I have a logon script that sets up mapped drives and printers. The problemI have been getting complaints of too much time logging on, is after the user has logged on once there is no need to go through the process again. ...