When ordering a case fan, do not rely on the picture. There are some case fans which are 4 inches square. When ordering a CPU, note that a AMD 3+ CPU motherboard accepts AMD 3 and 3+ CPUs, but an AMD 3 motherboard only accepts AMD 3 sockets. When re-using an HP Pentium 4 case…
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Another User Export Script
I have already written a script to dump user information into a spreadsheet here, so why do it again? User AD Export.vbs is different in that it uses the modern LDAP interface (instead of the lame WinNT interface I used earlier), and is therefore much faster. It was written for a user audit, so it…
A New Theme
I have changed the WordPress theme for my blog, just to freshen thing up.
Get User Information
NTUserInfo.vbs is a script based on Ralph Montgomery’s NTUser.wsf file. It gives a good summary about a user account, including user name, description, password status, and more. I have made a number of changes, including the ability to copy the results to the clipboard using IE. Rename from .txt to .vbs. New version 10/23/2009 allows entry of…
Enable AeroLite Theme in Windows 8
Somewhere on the web I found instructions on enabling the “hidden AeroLite” theme in Windows 8. Having taken the time to do this the long way — and not being really impressed by the results — I thought it would be worth the time to automate the process. You must open an elevated (run as…
PowerShell:Start RDP After Reboot
A lot of folks have been asking me why I haven’t written any PowerShell scripts. The answer is that I am pretty good at vbscript, and I couldn’t find anything that I wanted to do that I couldn’t do with vbscript. Last week I spent some time waiting for a computer to reboot. I used…
Customer Service Rants and Raves: Good Guys and Bad Guys
I had a very nice experience today with PJ Technologies, the makers of the WMI Explorer, WMIX, (see http://www.goverlan.com/#WMI-Enterprise-Desktop-Management). I had to reinstall, and had misplaced the license key. They had it to me in minutes. I had a very disappointing experience with LG’s support for my washing machine. I have a WM2455HW with the…
LDAP Ping
There are a lot of ways a Windows Domain Controller can act weird. Recently I had some which replied to a ping, replied to DNS requests, but failed to reply to LDAP. Since LDAP services are pretty high on my list of expectations for a Directory Services, I wanted a lightweight way to monitor LDAP. …
Get a Count of Duplicate Entries in an Array
This is a vbScript code fragment for something which took me a little too long to figure out. I am looking at a single dimension array and need to get a count of items in the array which are duplicates. I am comfortable with using the dictionary object and it seemed to be easier than…
Add SIP Information to All Mail Enabled Users in an OU
If are using Communicator in your company, you may have mail enabled users which are not SIP enabled. Add SIP to MailEnabled Users In OU.vbs sets the necessary SIP information to the UPN.