We’ve relocated the ScriptVault on ScriptingAnswers.com. Now, rather than a standalone application, it’s right within our forums, making it convenient to share your scripts, and to search for scripts others have shared. We still have a bit of reorganizing to…
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I finished up my slide decks for the first Techmentor conference of the year in San Francisco (March 30 –
Moscone Center West
April 3). If you’ve never been to a Techmentor conference you’re missing a great opportunity to hear…
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We’ve revamped the "Essentials" page on ScriptingAnswers.com to give it better visibility, and make it easier for us to add new content in the future (which of course we plan to do). Bookmark http://www.scriptinganswers.com/essentials, and subscribe to the new Essentials…
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These examples show how to run command-line tools from within a VBScript, capturing the tool’s output.
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' ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials - by Don Jones
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' Run cmdline tools
' This shows how to launch a command-line
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Here’s a script that demonstrates how to check for group membership from within VBScript. http://www.rlmueller.net/IsMember8.htm…
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Although ADSI Scripting: TFM has a more complete cross-reference, this one’s online and free: It shows the basic dialog boxes for AD Users & Computers, and provides the attribute name underneath the various text boxes and check boxes. So if…
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Hopefully you found my last entry valuable. But I always like to take things a step further, especially when it comes to scripting and automation. So I turned my last script into a function that returns the value of a…
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Last week I blogged about using REG.EXE in a batch file to read a registry key. The batch file I provided works, but the output is limited. You could probably parse it a bit more to get it in some…
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Our developers just dropped PrimalScope 2008 on me, and it looks sweet. It sports the Office 2007-style “ribbon” UI, adds dockable panels (I love being able to move the “output” pane to my other monitor), and adds the ability to…
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The other day I showed you how I wrapped the DateDiff function into my own function so that I wouldn’t have to remember that “n” is for minutes, among other things. Well the DateAdd function uses the same constants so…
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