Alan's Blog – Page 40 – "Yeah. I wrote a script that will do that."

Auditing SSNs and DOBs in files

Posted on March 24, 2009March 24, 2009 by Alan

FileAudit.cmd is a batch file used to check for files with sensitive DOB or SSN information. It is really, really slow, but it works. Rename from .txt to .cmd.

IP Info Script

Posted on March 22, 2009June 17, 2009 by Alan

This script, IPinfo.vbs, gets IP and network information from a local or remote windows PC. The results can be copied to your clipboard and look like this; NIC: MyNicNAME IP Address: 192.168.0.100 IP Subnet: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1 MAC Address: 0C:1F:3C:CB:41:8C DHCP Enabled: True DHCP Server: 192.168.0.10 DNS Domain: mydom.com DNS Domain Suffix Search Order:…

Testing BlogJet

Posted on March 21, 2009March 9, 2015 by Alan

I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a Windows client for posting to my blog. I like how it handles attachments. Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com “Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — Albert Einstein

I work for you…

Posted on March 19, 2009March 21, 2009 by Alan

You may note that many of my scripts have my email address at Veterans Affairs. Software written by federal employees (with national security exceptions) are public domain. (This does not mean you can put your name on it or sell it.) I get paid with tax dollars — and I share my work with other…

GPO Reporter HTA

Posted on March 19, 2009August 11, 2019 by Alan

This HTA (gporeporter) allows you to export GPO settings into HTML files. This is a good way to document and to search GPO settings. Requires the Group Policy Management Console, you will be prompted to install it if necessary. Note: The GPMC does not work with Windows 7. Update: 6/10/13: I have published a PowerShell…

Schedule Reboot HTA Tool

Posted on March 19, 2009August 11, 2019 by Alan

This HTA (schedulereboot) is a subset of the Remote Windows Update tool. You can use it to schedule the reboot of a remote computer.

Updated posts

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Alan

I have updated a few posts which had text attachments when I discovered that they were not accessible. I am quite proud of the The Remote Windows Update tool — give it a try.

SLAAB – Security Log Audit and Backup

Posted on March 19, 2009August 11, 2019 by Alan

SLAAB (Pronounced ‘slob’) is an MS Access based program for auditing and backing up event logs. Click here for download: SLAAB

Open Outlook Contact Address in Google Maps

Posted on March 13, 2009March 9, 2015 by Alan

‘Alan dot Kaplan at VA dot Gov 3/12/2009 ‘This script opens address of current Outlook contact in Google Maps. Dim objOutlook, objInspector Dim objExplorer, objNameSpace, objItem Dim oIE Dim strAddress, strURL ‘Set reference to Outlook item Set objOutlook = CreateObject(“Outlook.Application”) Set objNameSpace = objOutlook.GetNamespace(“MAPI”) Set objInspector = objOutlook.ActiveInspector Set objExplorer = objOutlook.ActiveExplorer If instr(objExplorer.CurrentFolder,”Contacts”) =…