Techmentor NYC Sept 2008
Monday, September 15th, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
As promised, here are zip files for my Techmentor NYC sessions. The slides are presented as PDFs. You'll also find a variety of demo scripts.… More »
Archive for the ‘Scripts and Templates’ Category
WinConnections Orlando 2008 PowerShell Demos
Friday, May 9th, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
These are my conference demos from WinConnections Orlando 2008. My sessions were all on PowerShell: Managing Active Directory with PowerShell Managing Servers and Desktops with… More »
Writing an LDAP Search Filter
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 by Don Jones
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/How+to+write+a+LDAP+search+filter is a great article on writing LDAP search filters.… More »
Custom Objects Example
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 by Don Jones
We've long been advocates of outputting objects, rather than text, and of keeping individual functions very single-task-specific. Here's an ultimate example of these two philosophies:… More »
Target a list of names
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
If you have a file with one name per line - be they user names, or more commonly computer names, this script will read them… More »
Targeting Active Directory objects (users, computers, etc)
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
Here's a great example of how to do something to every user, computer, or other object in the directory. This enumerates through every object, recursing… More »
Sending keystrokes to applications
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
The last-resort way of automating anything using VBScript is to launch a GUI application and just send keystrokes (but not mouse movement or clicks -… More »
Running command-line tools
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
These examples show how to run command-line tools from within a VBScript, capturing the tool's output. ' ' ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials - by Don Jones '… More »
Enumerating a hierarchy (like files and folders)
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
This example uses files and folders, but really any hierarchy - such as Active Directory - uses the same technique. You'll want to really read… More »
A VBScript Debug Window
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
This is one of my favorite tricks for debugging. Rather than adding MsgBox() calls to display variables' contents, I write them to a separate IE… More »