Archive for February, 2006

Remote Scripting: “ActiveX component can’t create object” on WSHController Object

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

While perusing the WSH 5.6 documentation I happened across a section on Remote Scripting. I imagined Remote Scripting to be possible but it isn’t something that I had seen before in the documentation. I started investigating and so created the scripts as suggested and ran the test.
Straight away I got the “ActiveX component can’t create […]

Active Directory: Find Inactive Computer Accounts

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Here’s a little script I wrote recently to find computer accounts that have been inactive (unused) for more than 60 days and are still resident in Active Directory.
The computers are searched for throughout the entire directory so you shouldn’t miss any. Consider extending this script to automatically delete accounts found by this script.

A trip to Whitby

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

I took a trip to Whitby over the weekend with my girlfriend. We wanted to get out, see the sights, grab some Fish & Chips and well, just be British for the day. As soon as we arrived, someone else had obviously decided to be British for the day too and selfishly parked their car adjoining […]

Upgrade :)

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

I’ve completed the move to Wordpress 2.01, everything looks good so I’m happy with that but I’m not 100% happy with the response times being exhibited by the site. It used to be rapid to say the least but it seems awfully sluggish since the upgrade.
A typical simple post like this one takes on average […]

Offer Remote Assistance in Windows XP Professional

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

I’ve spent a few hours this morning investigating Remote Assistance in Windows XP Professional. At first glance it looks like a potential VNC killer for the enterprise. Unfortunately, if you don’t look closely enough you’ll quickly dismiss it…

MySQL 5 & my blog

Monday, February 6th, 2006

It seems that my recent upgrade to MySQL 5 has caused me to miss a couple of replies to posts due to having “strict” mode enabled.
I have now fixed the problem and you should be able to post replies again. Sorry for the inconvenience!
I’ll be looking to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress in […]