Hi, welcome back, We may want to get the list of Active Directory Providers (" LDAP: ", " WinNT: ", " IIS: "...) with .NET the same way we do it with this VBScript : Set ads = GetObject("ADs:") For Each provider In ads Wscript.Echo provider.Name...

Hi, welcome back, You may want to get Password Expiration Date for a given user with System.DirectoryServices . You may be tempted to use a code like the following: DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry(path); object obj = entry.Properties["PasswordExpirationDate...

Hi all, welcome back, When we use CAPICOM , we may get some messages like the following: Security Alert: This Web site needs to decrypt data using your private key. Security Alert: This Web site needs to create a digital signature using your...

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...

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...

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...

Hi all, welcome back, If you remember all the confusion there was regarding CAPICOM support on Vista , now everything seems much clearer on Windows Server 2008. Our documentation team has done its homework, as we can see in CAPICOM Reference : ...

Hi all, welcome back, I recently had some issues involving PKCS#11 interface on Windows, and it seems quite clear that we don't support it, at least on Windows 2000 & Server 2003, and as far as I know on any other version of Windows: Public...

Hi all, welcome back, From time to time I get to do some scripting, play with LDAP/ADSI, WMI, etc. I'll begin posting some VBScript samples I have which may be useful for you too. Today we'll see a way to get the user who has logged on a given machine...

Hi all, welcome back, Most of the time we only have a smart card reader in our machine, and we only use one smart card to perform crypto operations. But what if we have several readers and cards , and those cards share the same CSP (Cryptographic Service...