Posts Tagged ‘VBScript Scripts’
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 »
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 - 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 »
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 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 »
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 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 »
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 write the page's HTML content out to a local file. ' ' ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials - by Don Jones ' ' Automate IE example ' This…   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 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 »
Checking for group membership
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
Here's a script that demonstrates how to check for group membership from within VBScript. http://www.rlmueller.net/IsMember8.htm…   More »
ADUC GUI to ADSI Mappings
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Essentials Administrator
Although ADSI Scripting: TFM has a more complete cross-reference, this one's online and free: It shows the basic dialog boxes for AD Users & Computers, and provides the attribute name underneath the various text boxes and check boxes. So if you know how to change something in the GUI, this…   More »










