Category Archives: Scripting

I’ve just finished off this first attempt at an actual useful PowerShell script. This should extract all Mail Enabled groups – that’s both security and distribution groups – and present them in a human readable format. Though I’ve played with … Continue reading →

Here’s a script, well, a subroutine I wrote today for sending an email with VBSCript using the CDO.Message and CDO.Configuration COM Controls available in Windows. Having struggled a little to actually get it working (mainly through utter stupidity), I thought … Continue reading →

When I’m looking for something in the Active Directory I don’t want to spend 30 seconds clicking [+] boxes to expand trees and manually look for a user or computer object so I created this script to do the job … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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… Continue reading →

This bit of VBScript will allow you to return a list of applications installed (as seen by Add/Remove Programs). The function returns a simple Array. Continue reading →

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 →

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 →