For sometime now, I've used Microsoft Excel as my primary VBScript reporting medium. It's easy to sort and organize data in Excel, and in general, Excel is easy to use. I've also found that most people are familiar with it. Team members and managers seem to like Excel because they can easily add their own touches, such as charts and colors, to reports before passing them on to upper management.
Not too long ago, I was manually creating a pivot table that displayed a count of locked-out accounts for an NT domain administration report. I decided to try scripting this functionality. I had tried my hand at scripting pivot tables in the past, but the Microsoft documentation and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros just didn't give me the syntax structure I needed. I had found most of the pieces of this puzzle. I just needed to find the missing few, then put all the pieces together. After an exhaustive trial-and-error period and actually walking away from the project for a couple of months, I decided to give it another shot. It took a couple of long nights, but I finally got all the pieces to fit. The result was two scripts: PivotTable.vbs and PivotTable2.vbs. . . .
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