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By Bob Wells
You can adapt a TechNet script so that it retrieves registry data without knowing the value names in advance.]]>Bob WellsMon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/vbscript/rem-retrieving-registry-datahttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/registry2/rem-configuring-completionchar
By Bob Wells
Using a simple command-line switch, you can configure your XP Pro workstation to automatically complete filenames and directory names when you press the Tab key.]]>Bob WellsMon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/registry2/rem-configuring-completioncharhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/dhcp2/rem-activating-dhcp-server-scopes
By Bob Wells
You can’t use WMI to activate DHCP server scopes, but you can use the Netsh command.]]>Bob WellsMon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/dhcp2/rem-activating-dhcp-server-scopeshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/perl/rem-interpolating-an-array-element-to-reference-a-property-name
By Bob Wells
Learn what an interpolated variable is by comparing a scripting language that supports interpolated variables with one that doesn’t.]]>Bob WellsMon, 16 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/perl/rem-interpolating-an-array-element-to-reference-a-property-namehttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/task-scheduling/rem-setting-cluster-file-share-permissions
By Bob Wells
Cluster.exe lets you configure your cluster’s file-share permissions without knowing trustees’ SIDs.]]>Bob WellsMon, 16 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/task-scheduling/rem-setting-cluster-file-share-permissionshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/vbscript/rem-playing-a-wav-file
By Bob Wells
In WSH scripts, you can use the WshShell object’s Run method to play .wav files in Windows’ Sound Recorder program.]]>Bob WellsMon, 14 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/vbscript/rem-playing-a-wav-filehttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/dns/rem-using-nslookup-with-random-ip-addresses
By Bob Wells
Do you need DNS information about an IP address? Here’s a script that lets you enter an IP address from the command line, then runs Nslookup against that address.]]>Bob WellsMon, 14 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/dns/rem-using-nslookup-with-random-ip-addresseshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/active-directory-service-interfaces-adsi/rem-authentication-problems-with-adsi-provider
By Bob Wells
If you’re having authentication problems with your ADSI script, the problem might not be with your code. Microsoft has documented several authentication problems that occur when you use the ADSI WinNT provider with the OpenDSObject method.]]>Bob WellsMon, 14 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/active-directory-service-interfaces-adsi/rem-authentication-problems-with-adsi-providerhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/active-directory-service-interfaces-adsi/rem-counting-objects-in-ad-containers
By Bob Wells
Several ways exist to count the number of child objects in Active Directory containers. However, each solution has its drawbacks.]]>Bob WellsMon, 15 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/active-directory-service-interfaces-adsi/rem-counting-objects-in-ad-containershttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/scripting/rem-learning-about-windows-shell-scripting
By Bob Wells
If you want to learn about the Windows command processor and batch files, check out these resources.]]>Bob WellsMon, 15 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/scripting/rem-learning-about-windows-shell-scriptinghttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/task-scheduling/rem-blazing-a-new-frontier-with-monad
By Bob Wells
Monad will provide a new console-based command shell, new commands, and a new shell-scripting language.]]>Bob WellsThu, 12 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/task-scheduling/rem-blazing-a-new-frontier-with-monadhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/active-directory-service-interfaces-adsi/rem-retrieving-the-value-of-the-objectguid-attribute
By Bob Wells
The code can be amazingly simple or moderately complex.]]>Bob WellsThu, 12 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/active-directory-service-interfaces-adsi/rem-retrieving-the-value-of-the-objectguid-attributehttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/vbscript/rem-finding-and-disabling-inactive-ad-user-accounts
By Bob Wells
Here’s a novel approach that uses the pwdLastSet attribute to find and disable stale AD user accounts in Win2K. ]]>Bob WellsMon, 08 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/vbscript/rem-finding-and-disabling-inactive-ad-user-accountshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/remote-computing/rem-remotely-installing-security-patches
By Bob Wells
Learn where you can obtain sample scripts and instructions on how to install on remote computers the security patch for the Blaster virus.]]>Bob WellsMon, 03 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/remote-computing/rem-remotely-installing-security-patcheshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/internet/rem-configuring-ics-and-icf-settings
By Bob Wells
You can’t use WMI, but you can use the Home Networking Configuration Manager component.]]>Bob WellsMon, 03 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/internet/rem-configuring-ics-and-icf-settingshttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-management-instrumentation-wmi/rem-using-wmic-on-windows-2000
By Bob Wells
You can use WMIC to manage any WMI-enabled computer, as long as you run WMIC from Windows 2003 or XP.]]>Bob WellsMon, 03 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-management-instrumentation-wmi/rem-using-wmic-on-windows-2000http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/active-directory-service-interfaces-adsi/rem-moving-users-between-ous
By Bob Wells
Although ADSI’s MoveHere method can be a bit confusing, it gets the job done.]]>Bob WellsMon, 03 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/active-directory-service-interfaces-adsi/rem-moving-users-between-oushttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/vbscript/rem-updating-the-quot-country-region-quot-setting-in-ad
By Bob Wells
To programmatically change the "Country/region" setting in the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in, you need to update three AD attributes.]]>Bob WellsMon, 06 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/vbscript/rem-updating-the-quot-country-region-quot-setting-in-adhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-script-host-wsh/rem-dispelling-some-misinformation-about-cscript
By Bob Wells
Like WScript, CScript is here to stay.]]>Bob WellsMon, 06 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-script-host-wsh/rem-dispelling-some-misinformation-about-cscripthttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-management-instrumentation-wmi/rem-wmi-isn-t-hyper-thread-aware
By Bob Wells
When you use WMI to inventory processors, it reports hyper-threaded processors as multiple processors.]]>Bob WellsMon, 06 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-management-instrumentation-wmi/rem-wmi-isn-t-hyper-thread-aware