Archive for the ‘VBScript Scripts’ Category
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 »
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 »
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 »
Automating Internet Explorer
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
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…   More »
Alternate Credentials - ADSI and WMI
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
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…   More »










