By Dave Roth, 12/17/2007
Keeping track of multiple email accounts for a single user can be tricky. Here's a script that leverages Perl and Active Directory to locate the Exchange users' addresses you want.
By Dave Roth, 03/21/2007
Run this script to find orphaned file-extension mappings that might point to viruses, malware, or other file-deletion problems.
By Dave Roth, 03/21/2007
If you run a 32-bit version of Perl.exe on an x64 machine, this article’s script will see only the 32-bit part of the registry and its output might be a bit misleading.
By Dave Roth, 08/11/2006
If you've worked with hexadecimal dumps, you know that they're a strain on not only your eyes but also your time. Fortunately, you can use HexDump.pl to eliminate this tedious ...
By Dave Roth, 07/11/2006
Administrators often create multiple email accounts for one user. How do you keep track of them? Here's a script that leverages Perl and AD to locate the addresses you want.
By Dave Roth, 06/12/2006
With the Win32::Clipboard extension, you can eliminate the time-consuming task of copying and pasting data into input files for scripts.
By Dave Roth, 05/08/2006
With Universal Plug and Play’s programmatic-configuration convenience comes an added burden of monitoring who or what might be changing your Internet Gateway Device (IGD) ...
By Dave Roth, 04/24/2006
Before tackling Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) programming, research how the architecture works.
By Dave Roth, 04/10/2006
Here’s a script that you can use to compare the files in two directories.
By Dave Roth, 02/13/2006
You might not know it, but Windows offers system components that let you easily write code to enable event response. Check out this WMI solution.
By Dave Roth, 01/17/2006
Does your PC often pop up a window with a message that says you don’t have enough memory available on your hard disk? If so, here’s a Perl script that can help you avoid these ...
By Dave Roth, 02/08/2005
Here’s a script that you can use to monitor remote machines on a network. It also demonstrates how a Perl script can interact with the taskbar status area to provide an alert you ...
By Dave Roth, 09/13/2004
With the recent revamping of WMS, more companies are beginning to take advantage of streaming media. Here’s an introduction to streaming media, WMS, and how to manage WMS with ...
By Dave Roth, 07/12/2004
With DCOM, you can use applications that aren’t installed on your machine. However, this practice can be dangerous.
By Dave Roth, 05/10/2004
Use this code to prevent CPU-intensive applications from bringing other processes to a crawl.
By Dave Roth, 04/12/2004
Have you ever tried to rename or delete a file and received an error message that says you can’t because the source or destination file is in use? Here are some tools that let you ...
By Dave Roth, 04/12/2004
Use a transport event sink script to mitigate the effect of email messages that contain viruses and other malicious code on your Exchange server.
By Dave Roth, 02/24/2004
Tired of unknown applications installing themselves in your disk directories and registry? Use this Perl script to remove them.
By Dave Roth, 10/06/2003
Use this simple Perl script to clean up cached data.
By Dave Roth, 10/06/2003
Find out how CleanCache.pl discovers the paths to cached data.