Category: Scripting

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...

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.

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.

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.