By Steve Seguis, 09/26/2007
If you have to change the permissions on the printers in your print cluster, you don't have to make those changes manually. PrinterPerms.cmd demonstrates how you can script ...
By Steve Seguis, 07/18/2007
Although it might seem like a lot of complicated code will be needed to automate a task, sometimes there's a simple solution. That's the case with CopyFile.cmd, which you can use ...
By Steve Seguis, 05/23/2007
You can use the MicrosoftIE_Object class with the root\cimv2\Applications\MicrosoftIE namespace to get the name and status of all the controls and programs that have been ...
By Steve Seguis, 05/17/2007
A reader created a batch file to back up a database. However, the batch file was a kludge, so he wanted to write a better script. Curious as to how a scripting pro would go about ...
By Steve Seguis, 04/25/2007
A reader created a batch file to back up a database. However, the batch file was a kludge, so he wanted to write a better script. Curious as to how a scripting pro would go about ...
By Steve Seguis, 05/08/2006
Use the Windows 2003 Netsh command to automatically change network settings, including DHCP configurations.
By Steve Seguis, 07/11/2005
Need to document the printers installed on the your print servers so that you can later recreate it on new servers? Here's a solution.
By Steve Seguis, 05/10/2005
Here's a way to quickly discover failed Kerberos-related logon attempts on your DCs without having to go to each machine individually.
By Steve Seguis, 05/10/2005
Learn how to determine file ownership without relying on external tools.
By Steve Seguis, 05/10/2005
Learn how to manipulate variables
By Steve Seguis, 04/11/2005
The updateattribs.vbs script gets a makeover by its author. The new version lets you specify usernames instead of DNs as input and uses named parameters.
By Steve Seguis, 02/12/2004
Discover how Ownedby.cmd outputs the name of every file that a specified user has created in a particular directory structure.
By Steve Seguis, 02/12/2004
Simplify software audits by easily and quickly querying a registry subkey to display a list of installation applications and hotfixes.
By Steve Seguis, 09/18/2003
If your domain holds a large number of users, you might need to use one of these methods to make userstatusrpt.vbs return information about all your user accounts.
By Steve Seguis, 09/15/2003
A short, simple script shows how to query AD for user account information.
By Steve Seguis, 09/08/2003
Finding out who is logged on to a particular computer is fairly easy, but finding out the machine a roaming user is logged to isn’t so easy. Here are two strategies you can use.
By Steve Seguis, 06/09/2003
You can create a VBScript script that uses ADSI to update AD according to the values in an Excel spreadsheet.
By Steve Seguis, 06/09/2003
Use Excel to overcome the shortcomings of CSV files.
By Steve Seguis, 05/27/2003
Over time, permissions on shared files and folders can become unmanageable. Here’s an alternative to manually checking file and folder permissions.
By Steve Seguis, 02/11/2003
Use this script to generate logon and logoff reports for a particular user for a specified time interval.