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Author:R TeachoutCreated:6/15/1999 6:20 AM
Various Windows VBS / Administration Scripts I've found / Written

I regularly have to look this up, so it was time to blog it!

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Hate the vbs scripts that output results, and when you run them from wscript, you have to click 'OK' a few hundred times?  Ensure it is running from cscript with this little bit of code.

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qwista / rwinsta command line tools

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Configuration Options for an RDP file (which is really a txt document).

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Redirects output of command line tools to the Windows clipboard. This text output can then be pasted into other programs.

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Simple 4 line script excellent for scheduled tasks to open a webpage to run some automated process (such as admin processing)

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Windows XP will not allow you to pin a shortcut to the start menu that points to a network drive. For this reason it can be necessary to write a batch file to launch a program. The issue is that a shortcut pointed to a .bat file also contains no “Pin to Start Menu” option. While it can be dragged onto the start menu, this leaves no option for scripting these shortcuts. The simple solution is to convert the .bat file to an .exe file and lucky for us Windows XP includes a tool that can do it…

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Script to Change Properties of ALL users in an OU in Active Directory to flag the following (for when you have an admin who forgets, and in 42 days you get a lot of phone calls!!! -User Cannot Change Password (check that box) -User Password Doesn't expire (check that box) (same as running dsmod user "CN=,OU=,DC=,DC=" -pwdneverexpires yes -canchpwd no)

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Just so we all can find it easily, here is how to start the System Restore from a command prompt

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EnumAnonymousAccessDisabled.txt Found on : http://blog.crowe.co.nz/archive/2006/04/05/605.aspxUPLOADTEMPLATE

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Found this code and wanted to bookmark it

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This snippet has come in handy quite a few times for me…

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Great script to keep around to set the asset tag on dell machines

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This script runs on the admin workstation. It gets a list of remote machines from a text file, copies the scripts to each machine, and then launches the first script on each machine. All scripts must be in the same folder.

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PingRange.cmd to Ping a subnet

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VBS Script to use WinMGMTS:\\ to enumerate in WMI all of the versions of NET Framework

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Have you ever setup a server, went home to work on it, only to find out that you forgot to check "enable remote deskop" before you left a NOC? This can fix it.

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How to enumerate using IIS:// all of the websites on a machine

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Windows System Event Log Function for VBS

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VBS script to view all of the IP's on a remote machine

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Rename your server, and join a domain example vbs script

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Display an HTML Message for a status windows in a VBS script using IE

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Great simple little vbs script to unload a domain user account.

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