Monthly Archives: September 2005

Searching Active Directory (VBScript)

Posted on Fri 30th September, 2005 by Lewis

If, like me, you have been left irritated by the search function in Active Directory Users and Computers simply not telling you WHERE a particular user or computer actually is, simply use this bit of code. It allows you to … Continue reading →

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Using ADO & PHP to query a CSV file

Posted on Sun 18th September, 2005 by Lewis

Using ADO and PHP to connect to a comma separated values (.csv) file to extract information using SQL queries and see the output as an HTML table. Continue reading →

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Screenshot active window

Posted on Wed 14th September, 2005 by Lewis

Use ALT+PRTSCRN to get a screenshot of only the active window. Meaning you don’t have to cut out the surrounding chaff with your favourite image editing application. Continue reading →

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Learning Windows Scripting.. pff

Posted on Tue 13th September, 2005 by Lewis

When one is learning from a book, does one expect the code that one is learning from to be not just incorrect but non-existant too? I think not. Continue reading →

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Directory size monitoring with VBScript

Posted on Fri 9th September, 2005 by Lewis

Need to monitor the size of a folder but don’t want to invest in some crappy software for the purpose? Use VBScript to email you when it exceeds a certain size. Continue reading →

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Large BLOB to MSSQL database

Posted on Fri 9th September, 2005 by Lewis

While trying to maintain security restrictions for a new system I’m developing to deliver data to our customers I came up with the following chunks of code to insert data in 256k chunks into a Microsoft SQL Server database. Continue reading →

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