The code fragment (scriptlet) which I have been using to pick a folder was written in 2002 based on code by Richard Mueller. My code was inelegant, and awful. It didn’t work too well in XP, and was worse still in Windows 7. I have been writing a script that needed a folder picker, and decided to revist…
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Solarwinds Free SNMP Enabler
Solarwinds has a good monitoring program, plus a number of free tools. The lastest allows you to enable SMNP. See:, http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/snmp-enabler-for-windows/enable-snmp.aspx
Audit files opened on a server — without turning on auditing
The security officer contacted me with was concern about an administrator looking at files in a user’s home directory. I was asked whether I could watch the files being opened without turning on auditing. OpenFilesUserSessionAuditor.vbs parses session data, and compiles a list of what files are opened by users over time. The data is written to a temporary database…
Snooze via VBScript
Snooze.vbs is the VBScript implementation of the VBA code I previously published to snooze pending Outlook reminders until 1 minutes before start time.
Outlook VBA: Reply to All as Text
I am a messaging old-timer, going back to the days of PINE and ELM and RBBSMail. I like to reply to message like this: >You said I reply. Actually the old days the mail client did it by initials so it looked like this: YS>You said AK>I reply. I get a lot of HTML mail,…
Outlook VBA: Snooze until one minute prior to start
I spend a lot of time on the phone for conference calls. If I snooze until 5 minutes before I am too early. 0 minutes before and I am too late. The following is VBA code to snooze open reminders until one minute prior to starting. I put it into a module and mapped it to…
Monitor the SCCM Software and Hardware Inventory Process
We rely on SCCM to know the status of our systems. After laptops are manually updated in the office, we want the SCCM inventory data to be sent before the computer is handed off to the user. Knowing when the inventory data has been sent can involve a tedious view of the logs. That is why I…
Too many permissions in AD
From MSKB 2001769: When you propagate the permissions on an object such as an organizational unit (OU), group, user, or computer in Active Directory, you may receive the following error: “Unable to save permission changes on ObjectName. A constraint violation occurred.” Cause: This will happen when the Access Control List (ACL) size on the object…
Is your Flash Player current
Sigh. Another Zero day for Flash Player this week. http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ will show you if you are current.
Every site is hackable
WordPress.com was hacked yesterday, see; http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/security/. The IRS had a hacked website last week. Almost ever site can be hacked give sufficient resources. Especially when you do not have full control of ever element. I do what I can. I don’t use a back end database to avoid cross site scripting attacks, and I much of…