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re: Using PowerShell History ( Part 2 )

Todd S. — Tue, 28 May 2013 19:41:38 GMT

Excellent tip, thank you!

re: Working with Group Policy Objects Programmatically – Locating a GPO using the GPMC ( Group Policy Management Console ) object model in C++

vipin kumar beniwal — Fri, 03 May 2013 05:49:52 GMT

hi code is running well on windows server but when i run it on my xp machine then

in following step i got error

Class not Register

hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_GPM, NULL,

CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,

IID_IGPM , (LPVOID*)&pGPM);

even i register dll gpmgmt.dll on this machine please tell me how can i run this from aremote xp machine

re: Title: COMException error 0x5011 (S_ADS_ERRORSOCCURRED) while enumerating the PrincipalSearchResult collection returned from System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagetment UserPrincipal:: GetGroups method

Konrad Neitzel — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:43:30 GMT

Hi,

thank you for the blog entry. But I just want to add that there is also a hotfix from Microsoft that is fixing such an issue when you use .Net Framwork 3.5:

support.microsoft.com/.../en-us

I just ran into such an issue when integrating our solution in the network of our customer and had these issues there, too.

re: Retrieving product installation information using WMI via Powershell on a remote machine

Chad — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:30:36 GMT

Andy,

You could always use "Impersonate"

Ex:

strComputer = "atl-dc-01"

Set objSWbemLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")

Set objSWbemServices = objSWbemLocator.ConnectServer _

(strComputer, "root\cimv2", "fabrikam\administrator", "password")

objSWbemServices.Security_.ImpersonationLevel = 3

re: Reading all WINS IP addresses on a computer using Windows Scripting Host ( VBScript )

joe — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:12:31 GMT

hi.. the code is kind of not displaying properly in your webpage. Can you attach or repost your VBscript code?

re: WScript.Quit( Value ) does not always match the error code environment variable %errorlevel% in the command processor ( batch file processing ) environment.

Jeff Spindler — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:20:02 GMT

It looks like this may have been a McAfee issue:

www.symantec.com/.../intermittent-failure-vbscript-returns-1073741819-w2k8-r2

kc.mcafee.com/.../index

re: Retrieving product installation information using WMI via Powershell on a remote machine

Andy — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:06:27 GMT

This is wrong - first: the variable ComputerName (presumanbly a remote machine?) is not being used. The variable Computer is the one in the registry command. Second: this doesn't work for remote connections - which for me is the whole point. When I execute this code (even with the ComputerName set properly) I still get the registry data FROM MY LOCAL MACHINE. :(

Is there no way to use credentials and get software info from Windows 2003 servers?

re: Create Proxy user in ADAM/AD LDS programmatically

B3NT_0 — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:56:39 GMT

The only attributes that are needed to successfully create a 'userProxyFull' are 'CN' and 'objectSid'. After setting those attributes call commitchanges(). Then you can safely set other attribtues. That seems to work 100% of the time. There are certain sets of attributes that can't be set initially for different object types with ADSI...which is what S.DS surfaces. It's the same for ADDS object types.

BTW this is one of maybe 2 articles on the entire internet with this code listing...'userProxyFull' specific. Cheers.

re: Using a customer application event log to debug a Powershell Script

pamarths — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:55:09 GMT

Before writing to the event log, we can first check if the event source exists and create one if not found. The [system.diagnostics.EventLog] namespace helps in this case. techibee.com/.../1621

re: Working with Group Policy Objects Programmatically - simple C++ example illustrating how to modify a registry based policy

ADiL — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:21:20 GMT

Max Vaughn , Where're you ?

bGPOPath : what is it ? how can i get it?

I tried to use GetDSPath to get bGPOPath but it didnt work