VBscript to get the system uptime from a group of computers
DaleOne of our corporate customers doubted that we had computers being left powered on overnight. So I quickly wrote the script below to query each computer’s uptime. The record uptime? …
How to uninstall all versions of a particular piece of software.
We’re in the mist of doing an Adobe Acrobat Reader upgrade, and one of my co-workers found this place of code on the net. The vbscript loops though WMI’s Win32_Product,…
How to set file/folder permissions on a remote computer.
Say, for example, you want to grant permissions on a remote folder. One way to do this is use the Microsoft XCACLS.VBS utility. Go read the Microsoft article I linked…
SMS Client Health Startup Script, and logging
The pilot of the SMS Client Health Startup Script has gone reasonably well. So far the script has found about 30 broken PCs. But the logging has been a bit…
My Corporate DNS Server was lying to me, often.
I was trying to copy some files to a group to a computers. What I’d do is check if the computer is alive first, by doing a network ping. If…
SMS Client Health Startup Script and Cross Domain logons.
I’m in the process of piloting the DudeWorks/1E/Shaun Cassells SMS SCCM Client Health script. I’ve set it up so it runs in the user’s logon script. But there’s a bug…
WMI has stopped working on some remote computers.
And I don’t know why. My strong guess is that it is related to one of the 10+ recent Microsoft security patches I’ve deployed to the fleet. (I’m looking at…
The WMI Overflow Error with GetObject
That’s what I thought at least. Consider this snippet of code from the Delete computers from SMS VBscript: Set objResource = GetObject( "WinMgmts:\\" & strSMSServer & _ "\root\SMS\site_" & strSMSSiteCode…
VBscript: "Pinging" a computer.
If you looked at yesterday’s post, carefully I’ll admit as WordPress loves to mangle the display of <CODE>; you might have noticed that I check to see if a computer…
VBscript to uninstall a Microsoft security patch
This is a small script I wrote many years ago to uninstall security patches. I customise it when I need it. In this example, I’ve customised it for MS09-032, but…