August 2004 - Posts

• Extreme file and folder scripting: Listing a directory tree recursively - Day 3 – Bonus script: Using WMI with LIKE

  When I showed these scripts to Dean, he thought there had to be an easier way to recurse through a directory tree with WMI, and he found it. The only caveat is that you must run it on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. This is because WMI Query Language, Read More... Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 12:43 PM by gstemp | 2 Comments

• Extreme file and folder scripting: Listing a directory tree recursively - Day 2 – Using WMI

  BabyScript Now that we've glanced at recursion out of the corner of our eye (on Day 1) and lived, it's time to stare straight-on into the unspeakable horror of the Medusa Code. If you have sunglasses, please put them on now. If you try to speak its name, Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 2:47 PM by gstemp | 1 Comments

• Extreme file and folder scripting: Listing a directory tree recursively. Day 1 – Using FilesSystemObject

  BabyScript If you attended Day 3 of the Scripting Week webcasts, "Scripting Files and Folders Makes Me Happy" http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=30795, you may recall an odd and vaguely menacing script in the second section on WMI. It bristled with Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:31 AM by gstemp | 5 Comments