Deleting missing or dead iTunes music entries
DaleFor whatever reason, I ended up deleting some MP3 files from my music storage, and my iTunes Library still had (now "dead") links to the files. To find these dead…
Getting a list of users in an AD Group. using Vbscript.
I much prefer using Quest to do this (see this post), but I needed to use Vbscript as I had to output the results into an Excel spreadsheet. If you…
Using VBScript to read though a set of registry keys
I’m currently doing another deployment of Acrobat Reader, this time with VBScript. I wrote about using Visual Basic to do that here. Function CheckForPro ' returns TRUE if Acrobat…
“You could use WMIC Product”
… suggested Adrian, of “Text Mode drivers and Sysprep” fame, in response to the “A script to list out the Add/Remove Program entries” post. Yes, that would work as well.…
A script to list out the Add/Remove Program entries …
Created a script to dump out the contents of Add/Remove Programs. The output looks like this: The VBscript follows below the break: On Error Resume Next Dim strHost,sAddRemTmp,iRegRC Const strBaseKey…
Resetting the "IE Browser Choice” preference.
We upgraded Internet Explorer to IE8. Foolishly enough, we assumed that on a Corporate Desktop, that users would only use Internet Explorer. Then the complaints from the vocal Firefox majority…
Writing log files with VBscript.
With some of our recent software deployments, we’ve used VBscript to install the software package(s). We have a dedicated team which develops these installation scripts. And their VBscripts mostly works…
Using Visual Basic to read though a set of registry keys.
The problem we have with a corporate deployment of Acrobat Reader, was that we need to uninstall various older versions of Acrobat Reader. Normally to do this, you need to…
Code to launch an Internet Explorer window from VBscript.
set IE = WScript.CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") dim ObjTitle IE.Navigate("about:blank") IE.Document.Title = "Software Update" IE.FullScreen = 1 IE.Left = 0 IE.Top = 0 IE.MenuBar = 0 IE.Toolbar = 0 IE.StatusBar = 0 IE.Width …
“Push customized printers down to XP client machines in domain environment?”
This is a copy of a post which was on Ask MetaFilter, August 2, 2006. In a Windows Server 2003 domain environment, is there a way to push printers to…