Server Newsgroups: Scripting for Windows Server

change format of display names in AD

Rich - 10 Feb 2007 8:27 AM - 2 messages

Hi I was wondering if anyone has a script to change the format of the display names in AD from First name last to last name first. We imported the info from Exchange 5.5 and the information over wrote the AD ...

Local administrator access

D.V.Ramesh - 9 Feb 2007 6:37 PM - 5 messages

Dear Friends, Is there a way to know who has Local administrator access on their computers (Laptop/Desktop) across the domain (specific domain) in an enterprise network. Users are installing unauthorized software(s). If any one can provide a script with examples that will be greatly ...

Modify DNS host record

Tim - 9 Feb 2007 4:59 PM - 3 messages

I need to be able to modify the IP address of an A record via a script, language is irrelevant as long as it's native to Windows. Any code sample by chance? Thanks! ...

Survey the creation of a file

Christian - 9 Feb 2007 2:29 PM - 2 messages

I have to make a script to do this : when a file is pushed (with ftp) in a spÃ©cific directory, this file must be unzipped in a shared directory on another server. If you've an idea thanks in advance ...

Searching for an apostrophe and replacing it

nwcubsfan - 8 Feb 2007 11:02 PM - 3 messages

I am reading a text file and each line is a filename. I loop through the collection and each file goes into a separate subfolder somewhere else. I am calling rsync to do the move, but it breaks on filenames with an ' in ...

Remote execution of a script on Kiosks

Patrick Matthews - 8 Feb 2007 9:46 PM - 2 messages

I need to remote execute a script on 250 kiosk pc's. I can't do it via login script seeing as how these machines are always on and nobody ever logs them off. they are all Windows XP SP2 boxes and I can not install any other ...

Printer Script

Rob - 8 Feb 2007 8:23 PM - 5 messages

Background We have two Print servers. One = windows 2003 One = Windows NT We want to decomission the Windows NT print server, as the Windows 2003 is alot better. Better Hardware and Software. While some of the queues are identical on each server, some are not.. And most importantly, I need to ...

a.d. searching filter

Randy - 8 Feb 2007 8:06 PM - 3 messages

hey...i'm pulling information from active directory to create a spreadsheet based on user information, and i need to add a few filters to eliminate false info. below is the search part of the script. my script runs without error, but doesn't filter out the contractors and ...

Script to Export Access Report

Glenn - 8 Feb 2007 3:52 PM - 5 messages

I have a report in Access that I'd like to automatically export every day as an HTML file. I can do this manually, but I'd like to schedule a task to run a script that would do it for me. ...

Writing to a customized event log

Frank Ball - 8 Feb 2007 12:01 PM - 4 messages

Hi to all I have used the following code to create a customized event log for my application " Const NO_VALUE = Empty Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.RegWrite _ "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Scripts\", NO_VALUE ...

Password Expiration Script

Barrycuda - 7 Feb 2007 5:14 PM - 4 messages

Hope someone can help Occasionally I will have to create a user on our domain that does not use our email server (exchange). So the users account is not mail enabled. We have a 3rd party application that sends password expiration reminders to ...

Printer job time

G.O.O - 7 Feb 2007 4:21 PM - 2 messages

I would like to write a script that would start a printer at a certain time every morning. coould somebody help?. ...

Anyway to make save dialog in all apps default to My Docs on server?

Newbie - 7 Feb 2007 2:29 PM - 3 messages

Is there anywhere in Win2003 Server GPO to make save and save as dialog in all apps default to relevant My Docs on server? Thanks ...

change company name for all accounts

Patrick - 7 Feb 2007 2:40 AM - 4 messages

I haven't had time to learn WMI yet, but I have an immediate need to change the Company: field from OldCompanyName to NewCompanyName in the organization tab for all of my user accounts. It is going to take me forever to do it by ...

Searching through a large list for string/pattern matches

nwcubsfan - 6 Feb 2007 10:10 PM - 2 messages

I am writing a script that moves files. All of the filenames that are associated with one-another start out the same and have an underscore. Example... Dan_1.txt Dan_2.txt Dan_545dfgfd.txt Steve_343.txt Steve_fr54.txt Steve_555.txt ...

Monitor Event Logs in Realtime - Error

Rob - 6 Feb 2007 2:00 PM - 11 messages

I have modified the script found here: [link] to monitor event ID 560. This is running on a Windows 2000 Enterprise Server that gets a lot of entries in the security log. Eventually my script ...

Add comments inside Powershell

Bruno Guerpillon - 6 Feb 2007 11:21 AM - 2 messages

Hi I'd like to know how to add a comment inside a Powershell ? (typically a REM) Thanks Regards Bruno ...

help with this script

Avi G - 5 Feb 2007 12:16 PM - 3 messages

Hi, i've this script that take ip's from text file do ping to every ip and write the results into ping.csv then change the local admin password to each ip. now my problem is that the change local password isn't do loop for all ip's ...

Server service check script

djmulls - 4 Feb 2007 9:58 PM - 2 messages

Right I having been trying to write this script for a while and it is stumping me. I have been trying to do this in a batch file but i am open to other suggestions now. What I am trying to do is check a service on a server and then based ...

Make a "Disk Initialize" with command line

Jacques MARCHAL - 4 Feb 2007 9:05 PM - 2 messages

Hi All, How can I do a "disk initialize" on a disk (on which a CLEANUP has been executed) with a script or command line ? I think there isn't any command about that in diskpart. Thanks ! ...