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Hi all, The following VBScript sample retrieves all users in Active Directory that haven't ever logged on the domain, or haven't logged on for at least maxDays (an argument passed to the script): On Error Resume Next ' Constants ' Const ONE_HUNDRED_NANOSECOND
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Hi all, welcome back, The other day a customer of mine was having an issue with SignTool.exe when signing an EXE file. The EXE file was getting corrupted /unusable after signing it. When troubleshooting this issue, I had the chance to play a bit more
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Hi all, You may know already that there is no i.e. COM object or .NET class we can use to change the Windows Theme programmatically on Windows XP . You may also know the following VBScript which can be used to do this change without user intervention:
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Hi all, We may have a group in our Active Directory with members from a foreign domain . We may try to retrieve all those members with ADSI and a code like this: Using IADs::GetInfoEx for Range Retrieval . The issue with this code is that we will only
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Hi all, welcome back, As we read in Windows Security Center – Managing the State of Security , the vast majority of antivirus Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) support WMI integration. Windows Security Center uses it to detect antivirus and firewall
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Hi all, welcome back, Today I'll post a very straight forward sample which gets a list of all users in an Organizational Unit ( OU ) in Active Directory ( AD ) using VBScript : ' Get OU ' strOU = "OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=com" ' Create connection to AD '
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Hi all, welcome back, Today I'll share with you a couple of VBScript samples I developed the other day. They use WMI and its StdRegProv class to read the Windows registry . This sample will take a registry key and show its subkeys and the values within
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Hi all, welcome back, You may want to give users or groups access to perform read/modify WMI operations on WMI objects , and for that you need to change the Security Descriptor ( SD ) for WMI objects. There are several ways to achieve this: 1) Manually
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Hi all, welcome back, Today I'll show how we can set the following permissions on a registry key with RegIni.exe and a VBScript : - Creator Owner Full Control - Users Full Control - Power Users Full Control - Administrators Full Control - System Full
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Hi all, welcome back, It's very easy to find out the user name and the domain name of the user running a VBScript, and the computer name where it's running: Set objNet = CreateObject("WScript.NetWork") strInfo = "User Name is " & objNet.UserName &
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