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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 I’d blog it for anyone else struggling or just needing a quick fix.

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 of finding it for me and telling me exactly where I have to go to […]

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 […]

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…

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.

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 search through AD for users or computers and returns a list of what it finds […]

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.

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.