My Corporate DNS Server was lying to me, often.
DaleI 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…
Some great free scripting tools.
Sapien make, what I think is the best script editor available. It’s called PrimalScript. Not cheap, but it was the only way I know to step though a PowerShell script. …
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…
Deleting computers from SMS 2003 (and perhaps SCCM 2007), with a script.
Below is a script which will delete a list of computers from SMS 2003. And quite possibly SCCM 2007 as well (not tested). It was originally taken from the SMS…
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…
The Windows PowerShell syntax was deliberately chosen
The Windows PowerShell syntax was deliberately chosen to facilitate ease of use and ease of learning. Corporate enterprise Windows administrators are the target audience. - Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide by…
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…
Get the logged on user – code which works!
Some VBscript code which ACTUALLY works. I don't understand some sites which share code. You go looking for VBscript code on the net to do something, and invariably IT DOES…
Customers like to (re)use the methods of the support team …
I was doing some code cutting the other day for a customer. Indirectly. I had sent a DOS batch file to Customer A, in response for an urgent fix request. …