I am spending more and more of my time on operating systems with User Access Control. ReRunUAC.vbs is a script fragment (scriptlet) which allows you to force a vbscript to run with a UAC prompt when executed. It also allows you to select the host – cscript or vbscript. Tags: UAC
Month: June 2010
How to maximize a minimized HTA file
MaximizeMeTest.HTA (MaximizeMeTest.zip) is example code for how to maximize an HTA file that has had windowstate set to mimimize. There are quite a bit of remarks about this, see, ex: http://www.scriptinganswers.com/forum2/forum_posts.asp?TID=2103 Because the state is read only after the HTA loads, I use a pretty big kludge to achieve this. The HTA writes out a temporary vbScript that…
Get information about all Exchange mailboxes
This script, AllMailBoxes.vbs, queries all of your exchange servers, returning a report with these items: NT Name, Display Name, Limit Info, Box Size(MB), Total Items, Orphaned, Store name, StorageGroupName, Server Name. Orphaned mailboxes are those that have no associated AD account. [link fixed 6/23] Tags: Exchange, mailboxes
Compare Active Directory and SCCM databases
There is no good way to see what systems are in Active Directory which are not in SCCM, and sometimes you may want to manually delete systems from SCCM that are no longer in AD. AD_SMS_Compare_and Cleanup.vbs does both. It creates a temporary mdb file (whether or not Access is installed), and two reports on your desktop. …
Create search filter for Microsoft ISA (Proxy) server
The query interface for Microsoft’s ISA server can be tedious to use. This script, CreateDestinationAndTimeFilter.vbs, creates a filter to be used by ISA server to capture all traffic to an IP during an interval of time. It was tested only with ISA 2004 Standalone Cached mode. You can run it interactively or from command line, example:…
Zero-day exploit for Adobe Reader, Flash now in the wild
Zero-day exploit for Adobe Reader, Flash now in the wild. Again.