SAPIEN Solutions

 http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/How+to+write+a+LDAP+search+filter is a great article on writing LDAP search filters.…   More »

 If you have a file with one name per line - be they user names, or more commonly computer names, this script will read them all and execute a block of your code for each name in the file. The comments provide an example that you can completely replace. The…   More »

 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 the entire directory. ' ' ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials - by Don Jones ' ' Targeting AD ' This shows how to target every user, computer, '…   More »

 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 - try AutoIt if you need mouse control, too). Here's an example, using Notepad, of how sending keystrokes works. Note that this takes a lot of…   More »

 These examples show how to run command-line tools from within a VBScript, capturing the tool's output. ' ' ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials - by Don Jones ' ' Run cmdline tools ' This shows how to launch a command-line ' tool and retrieve its output into a string variable ' to then…   More »

 This example uses files and folders, but really any hierarchy - such as Active Directory - uses the same technique. You'll want to really read through this one and understand what it's doing to be able to take advantage of it: It shows how to have a function recursively call…   More »

 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 window. When I'm done debugging, I uncomment one line (as noted below) to disable the debugging functionality - which is easier than going through and…   More »

 This quick example shows how to automate Internet Explorer. In this example, I just pop up IE and navigate to a particular page, and then write the page's HTML content out to a local file. ' ' ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials - by Don Jones ' ' Automate IE example ' This…   More »

 Here's an example of using alternate credentials to connect to either WMI or ADSI. Note that WMI doesn't allow alternate credentials if you're connecting to the LOCAL computer - only for remote connections. Both of these examples use a function. GetPassword, which I've included. This prompts you for a password…   More »

 Here's a script that demonstrates how to check for group membership from within VBScript. http://www.rlmueller.net/IsMember8.htm…   More »