By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 07/12/2004
Use scripts to automate and improve your control over Windows utilities, such as NTBackup and Dfscmd.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 07/12/2004
Use scripts to automate and improve your control over Windows utilities, such as NTBackup and Dfscmd.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 02/12/2004
Raising and trapping events in scripts is useful. Here’s what you need to know to get started.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 12/08/2003
Here’s how you can use three ActiveX COM components—DSOleFile, ScriptPW, and WaitFor—in your scripts.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 12/08/2003
Here’s an example of how to add and explore a component in Word’s Object Browser.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 11/03/2003
Learn more about the GPMC and how to use it to automate the creation and application of permissions to GPOs, SOMs, and WMI filters.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 11/03/2003
WMI filters let you retrieve useful information that you can then use in your GPMC scripts.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 10/06/2003
Find out how you can use the GPMC’s COM objects to automate some simple and some complex policy-based searches.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 09/08/2003
Microsoft adds some new tricks to Windows 2003 that let you automate the process of configuring GPOs to perform policy-based tasks.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 08/11/2003
Do you typically want to print the results that a script generates? Learn how to have the script do the printing for you.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 07/09/2003
One of two key objects in the Microsoft Scripting Runtime Library, a Dictionary object stores data items similar to the way an array does, but its data-item indices don't have to ...
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 04/07/2003
Don't settle for simply extracting information from AD or WMI. Use Csvde, the Scriptomatic, and Excel to create clear and easy-to-read reports.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 04/07/2003
Learn how to determine which code to use to automate Excel from within VBScript.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 01/09/2003
This final installment in the series provides information about securing the corporate update system and advice about using it to its full potential over time.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 11/05/2002
Learn how you can automate the client-side installation process so that you can manage your clients as part of the corporate update system.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 10/08/2002
Discover how to create client-side scripts to search for updates in a central script repository.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 09/10/2002
Learn how to use scripts to build a large, complex enterprise solution.
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 08/13/2002
These scripts help you kill processes, use recursion to list every subfolder in a directory, find all the printers and drives on a network, find SQL Server systems, and start or ...
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 07/11/2002
Alistair G. Lowe-Norris offers a continuing look at an ActiveX control you can use with WSH that simplifies the task of adding buttons, custom backgrounds, progress bars, and ...
By Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, 06/11/2002
Discover an ActiveX control you can use with WSH to make creating forms a snap.