Tutorial for Creating a Computer Account with VBScript Here are examples of VBScripts that you can use to create computer accounts. Compared with user accounts, computer accounts are relatively easy to script because they need fewer properties. The only compulsory attributes are sAMAccountName and userAccountControl, there is no need to …
Scriptomatic 2.0 – a Tool to Learn about the WMI interface Scriptomatic 2.0 is a magic program, which can actually write your WMI scripts. It will almost never make a syntax error, and will guide into new scripting areas. Here in Scriptomatic version 2, is the ultimate for collecting information …
VBScript Kill Process If ever you wish to stop or terminate a Windows process, then this is the page for you. Before you begin killing processes, you may wish to list processes running on a the Windows Server 2003 or XP computer. Task Manager is a great utility to match …
Tutorial for Creating a User Account with VBScript This page has VBScript examples, which show you how to create User accounts in your Windows Server domain. I urge you to trust me, and build your scripts in stages. The benefit of creating scripts in small sections is that not only …
Tutorial for Setting userAccountControl When a new account is born, especially if you created it with CSVDE, it will be disabled. By resetting the userAccountControl to 512, you can enable any Active Directory account. However, there is another factor, and that is giving the enabled account a password so that its …
Introduction to Do…Loop Until ‘Best Practice’ dictates that we should take steps to control errors. Another reason for error handling is that it saves time troubleshooting when you can narrow down the problem to one section of the script. In practice you have three, choices, write a statement that says …
VBScript Create Folder My mission is to create a VBScript that will write data to files. The problem is that before we can run (write to file), we must learn to crawl (create the folder). To get the most out of this section realize that there are 3 different html …
VBScript to Change the Registry Settings Our mission is to create a script that will change values in the registry. Once you have mastered the technique, the scope for registry scripting is nearly as big as the registry itself. The mission will be tricky, success will depend on attention to …
Tutorial for Creating an OU (Organizational Unit) with VBScript When I visit companies, it surprises me that only 50% of network managers create any OUs in their Active Directory. The rest keep all their accounts in the Users (or Computers) container. The distinction between OU and container object is not …
Introduction to WMI Win32 Although there are other classes of WMI objects, Win32 is the richest source of operating system component. WMI uses Win32 components such as Process, Memory and DiskDrive to measure and control the operating system. To be clear what I am talking about, WMI contacts the root\cimv2 …