I seem to run into an issue when I run some PowerShell scripts where I get prompted at each line of the script for confirmation. That can get really annoying, so I have to look up how to prevent that behavior. Thankfully, there is already some good information out there on how to do [...]
At some point, I had a desire to list all the computer accounts for any server OS in Active Directory. I am pretty sure that I did a search and found the script below, but I don’t remember where, so whoever wrote it doesn’t get credit this time…
$strCategory = “computer”
$strOperatingSystem = “Windows*Server*”
$objDomain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry
$objSearcher [...]
I have written a lot of scripts that use .txt files to read or store data, but I have a need to read some information from an .xml file. This could be done by treating the file as a simple txt file, but it would require some pretty good filtering that is already a part [...]
One of the things that we spend a lot of time on is trying to keep track of what servers have enough free space. We have a lot of different tools to check drive space, and we even use some of them from time to time. We have a pretty complicated system created by Rickey [...]
I have the unfortunate need to occasionally fix things in the registry, mostly related to applications running in a Citrix environment. I believe there are nice tools out there that are supposed to do this for you, if given the right information, but I haven’t bothered to figure out what those tools are or how [...]
I was looking for something else and came across this in the Scripting guy archives…
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(“c:\scripts\test.txt”, ForReading,False,TriStateTrue)
The first two parameters probably don’t faze you much: they’re simply the full path to the file we want to open and the constant ForReading. And you’re right: this is standard operating procedure when it comes to [...]
I was trying to write a script to read a text file and evaluate the data to do some formatting on it. This is for a project I am working on and the person that gave me the text file wants some changes made based on the contents of the file. I have done similar [...]
I wanted to be able to remotely connect to a server and see if it had a profile directory for a particular user. I wrote a VBScript that will connect to a machine through WMI, find out what the ProfilesDirectory path is and then list all the folders in that directory. It wouldn’t take much [...]
So… the other day I was working on a script. I had a need to delete several registry Subkeys under one key. I hadn’t really figured out how I was going to go about it, but I happened to pick up a copy of TechNet Magazine on my desk and see at the bottom “Scripting [...]
Microsoft’s Script Center has a “funzone“ that has a weekly scripting puzzle. I haven’t tried it yet, but it would seem like a good way to get some practice scripting.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/puzzle/default.mspx
