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    - ADO RecordSet Is there a recordcount limitation with an ADO RecordSet in vbScript? Every AD query I perform with results greater than 1000 returns 1000; even the recordSet.RecordCount. Bart Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176649
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    - ADO RecordSet Is there a limitation with an ADO RecordSet in vbScript? It seems as though every variation I try (results greater than 1000) totals 1000; even the 'recordSet.RecordCount'. Bart Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176647
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    - AD Replication via a Script I need to have an easy way for our Help Desk to initiate AD replication. Thus far I have been unable to find any script that will do this. When our Help Desk creates new Exchange Mailboxes it sometimes takes 30 minutes or so for things to show up. Ideally, I would like to just give our Help Desk users a VBS script to run from their desktop that would initiate AD replication on demand. Thanks, Fred Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176645
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    - download a file Hi. Is it possible to download a file from an url and save it to C:\temp with a vbs script? Thanks, Shawn Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176644
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    - Script to get my public ip address How can i get my public ( firewalls public ) ip address with vbscript? I mean if i connect any local area network how can i get those lan's public ip? Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176640
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    - get script name How can I get the name of the script I am running? FOR EXAMPLE, Lets say I execute DeployAll.vbs and when this script is running I want to be able to get the name if script and I store in memory. If I were to Wscript.Echo Filename, I would expect DeployAll.vbs. Thanks! Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176631
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    - Using VB Script to install software - Need insight - I was hoping with the wealth of knowledge here that someone could shed some light on using Vbscript to install software. Using vbscript to install msi based applications is not a problem, but where the problem begins is when installing an application or driver package that does not use the windows installer or uses a setup.exe which does the preliminary prep work then launches another executable for the installation. I'm trying to prevent the script from assuming the application is installed when its not, and kicking off the next application install and fouling up the process. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance, Jeff Millar Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176630
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    - Drive Mapping The problem i have is i have a logon script that map's network drives. The mapping is done correctly but you display the network drive on a remote computer the drive shows as being disconnected. You can click on the drive and it will open up but it stills shows as disconnected. the script is listed below: Can anyone help and let me know what i'm doing wrong danny Option Explicit Dim objNetwork Dim strDriveLetter, strRemotePath strDriveLetter = "F:" strRemotePath = "\\server\Vol1" ' Purpose of script to create a network object. (objNetwork) ' Then to apply the MapNetworkDrive method. Result F: drive Set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive strDriveLetter, strRemotePath WScript.Quit Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176629
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    - Joing computer script I have a site with about 160 users. None of the computers are members of the domain. Most are XP & 2000 clients. I know little about scripting and looking for some guidance or script that could join computers to the domain. Make it easy : ) Thanks Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176628
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    - AD and Login Scripts Is there a way to get Active Directory to stop running login scripts at the computer level? I work for a college. I want to give students a particular profile when they are in our computer lab. And another if they are working in one of our offices. I suppose I could build an IF statement into the user script that if computer ismember of dn=computers then quit. Or is there a better way? Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176627
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    - Roaming Profiles & Defalut Printer I am trying to enable an automated method of setting the default printer for roaming profiles depending on site. I.E user logs on in Site A they will have PR100 as default when they log on in Site B they will have PR400. Each site has 50 odd printers so printers will vary per user... Any ideas or pointers would be appreciated Rick Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176625
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    - How to list all the reg keys under a key Hi all, Can anyone tell me if it is possible, and if so how i can read all the reg keys under a key. We have a large number of printers and i need to often run a report on the status and set up of the printers. Rather than keeping a list of the printers and reading from a text file i would like to just script it to perform certain tasks on all the printer keys in SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\print\printers\ Thanks in advance Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176621
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    - outlook.application Please help, I have a script that will not work. It just stops with "The specified module could ot be found" Error 8007007E. Is it somthing to to with the reg file. Any help received with thanks. Dim EM Dim MailItem MsgBox "Creating Outlook object" Set EM = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") MsgBox "Creating e-mail item" Set MailItem = EM.CreateItem(0) MsgBox "Setting Email Parmeters" MailItem.Subject = "A Test" MailItem.Body = "This text is in the body" MailItem.Recipients.Add "me@home.com" MsgBox "Displaying Email Item" 'MailItem.Send MailItem.Display(True) Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176618
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    - send parameters with the method action Hi, I have a problem, I must send the parameters UserName and Password with the method action from one page that is the form, to the another one,MailBee.asp <form action="MailBee.asp" method="post" id="form1" name="form1"> Is there anyone who can help me? ----------------------------- This message is posted by http://asp.forumszone.com Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176616
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    - VPN question How can I prompt the VPN connection dialog box by using vbscript? Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176615
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    - Number to binary Hi all I am looking for a function similar to: <% response.write(Hex(460)) %> converts 469 into its HEX of 1CC but to do the same with binary i.e. 5 would give 101 looked through the W3C VBScript lists but nothing I can do it in javascript: <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function decimal(dec) { this.dec=dec; this.toBinary=function() { return this.dec.toString(2); } } </script> then document.write(new decimal(5).toBinary()); but need to be able to do it with VBscript to use with my ASP thanks for any help Matt Houldsworth Digitalquill Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176609
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    - Can a vbscript run first before opening an application (e.g. IE, Winword)? As titled. If yes, how can it be done? If no, any other way to fulfil this situation? Thanks a lot. Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176604
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    - Memory cleanup with VBscript Okay, this may sound like a dumb questions, but here goes. Does VBscript clear all variables when the script exists cleanly. Yes I am lasy but I don't want to set everything to "=Nothing" if I don't have too. Thanks in advance for your help! Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176602
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    - Running the script remotely using different credential I am looking for ways to runs to run VB script locally or remotely using differential credential other the current logged on user Like how to run this script on a remote machine by supplying the admin credential const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002 strComputer = "." Set StdOut = WScript.StdOut Set oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" &_ strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv") strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\System Admin Scripting Guide" oReg.CreateKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath Thanks in advance Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176589
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    - VBS/MS Word Merge Hi, Is it possible to merge data (from SQL Server) via special placeholders in a Word document ? I noticed that most "Word merge VBs examples" all create new documents by inserting things like paragrahs in conjunction to actual data. I'd like to define my template first and then just replace its placeholders with actual data. Has anyone ever done this? I'd appreciate if you could give me some pointers or ... perhaps share some sample code. Thanks! JV Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176588
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    - ComDlg Open read only file and multiple select The file open dialog box shows a check box "READ ONLY". (Unless you specify the flag cdlOFNHideReadOnly = 4) How can the script know if the check box has been checked by the user? One more question: if multiselect is allowed I can select more than one file. But the FileName property does not report them all. It only reports the name of the directory. How can I retrieve all the filenames selected? Thank you very much. Giovanni. Set comDlg=CreateObject("MSComDlg.CommonDialog.1") const cdlOFNHideReadOnly = 4 const cdlOFNAllowMultiselect = 512 comDlg.Flags = cdlOFNHideReadOnly + cdlOFNAllowMultiselect comDlg.Filter = "All|*.*| VBScript|*.vbs" comDlg.maxfilesize=500 comDlg.ShowOpen msgbox comDlg.FileName -- Giovanni Cenati (Aosta, Italy) Write to user "Reventlov" and domain at katamail com http://digilander.libero.it/Cenati (VbScript) Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176584
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    - Retrive office location Hi, I need to retrived the office location for all the users in AD. Does anyone has a vb script for this job? Thanks, -- Michelle Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176574
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    - How do I get stdio in a string vairable from call to Exec? After i exec a command like below: Set oExec3 = WshShell3.Exec(command3) Do While oExec3.Status = 0 WScript.Sleep 1 Loop WScript.Echo oExec3.Status,",",oExec3.ExitCode Is there anyway I can get a string copy of stdio in a vaiable generated by the exec command? Cheers and thanks, Jim Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176573
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    - Read from TXT file Hi All, How do extract the following from a text file - lines 5 through to the end of the file? Ta Andi Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176563
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    - Scripting.FileSystemObject I'm using a data access page with a bunch of VBscripts, and I want to dump changes to the access database into a text file. I'm attempting to use the method shown at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/sgprogrammingfilesystemobject.asp but I am having no luck. I'm getting the following error: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q311269 I completed their "resolution" but nothing was changed/fixed. Is there any other solution? Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176561
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    - Advice for Someone New to Scripting Hi All, I am reasonably competant (or maybe reasonable incompetant) at using VBA and want to create a few small VBS files. I am getting a bit stuck on the real basics about:- 1) is the Microsoft Script Debugger the best debugging tool for visual basic script files - if it is, why does it not include .vbs as one of the save options 2) How would I debug the following code - as when I open it in the microsoft script debugger all the text is blue and I can't run the code? Option Explicit Dim Text, Titel Dim WshNetwork ' Objektvariable Text = "Workstation Information" & vbCRLF & vbCRLF Titel = "GME Online PC Information for HelpDesk" Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") Text = Text & "Your Computername : " & _ WshNetworK.ComputerName & vbCRLF Text = Text & "Your Logon Domain : " & _ WshNetworK.UserDomain & vbCRLF Text = Text & "Your UserID : " & _ WshNetworK.UserName & vbCRLF MsgBox Text, vbOkonly + vbInformation, Titel WScript.Quit Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176557
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    - currently logged on users in a domain! Hello everybody... how can I know who's logged on to a domain so that I can do something for each logon user? Thanks in advance. c-mos Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176556
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    - Windows Common Dialog control problem on Win2k? Hello, I have a vbScript that calls the Windows Common Dialog box... On XP, the script works just fine... But on Win2k workstations, I get "ActiveX component can't create object". Set CDObj = CreateObject("MSComDlg.CommonDialog") if err > 0 then msgbox err.description end if If Err Then MsgBox "Error: Can't create Dialog Object!?" WScript.Quit End If Any ideas why?? Troy Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176551
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    - Getting Outlook 2003 folders size How do I get the current folder size of my mailbox from the Outlook side? I want to know how much space is my client side (Outlook 2003) is using without querying my Exchange 2003 server. Any help is greatly appreciated. MB Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176549
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    - Adding a list of URLs to Media Player Hi, I have a list of URLs (ASF links) that I want to add to Media Player. This is what I have so far but it fails when trying to add the URL. According the WMP SDK, the MediaCollection.Add command should be the right one. Does anyone know what's wrong? Dim link URL = "URL goes here" 'Get list of ASF files from URL With CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") .Navigate URL Do Until .ReadyState = 4 Wscript.sleep 10 Loop for each link in .document.links Call AddToPlayList next .Quit End With Sub AddToPlayList Set objPlayer = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX" ) objPlayer.MediaCollection.Add (link) End Sub Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176547
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    - How to copy/paste formula in Excel using vbs Hello, I'm trying to imitate VBA code in VBS to copy paste formula from a cell to another but i just cannot get through it. Any help would b greatly appreciated. Thanks for your valuable help Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176545
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    - CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") Takes focus! When I write a script with the line Set oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") The newly created Internet Explorer App takes the keyboard and mouse focus away from the active application. Since this script runs in the background while the user is working, its is really annoying to the users and they usually have to stop working until the script finishes. Is there any way to do this without stealing the focus? Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176539
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    - Inputbox value must be written in a specified file Greetings Vbscript Guru's, I am a complete Novice so bare with with me. This is my project I am working on. I need to place the value entered(for e.g 1.1.1.1) in the inputbox into a file where it is going to replace a variable called "ipaddress". When the value is pasted there a new file will be created. I am having trouble to use the popup box entered value I call it "input" in my scenario. See code below. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help me out here. AQUILA -------------begin---------- Const ForReading = 1 Const ForWriting = 2 Dim Input Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Input = InputBox("Enter your IP address") MsgBox ("You entered: " & Input) Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\scripts\test.txt", ForReading) Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream strLine = objFile.ReadLine strLine = Replace(strLine, "ipaddress", & Input) strNewText = strNewText & strLine & vbCrLF Loop objFile.Close Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("C:\scripts\test1.txt", ForWriting) objFile.WriteLine strNewText objFile.Close --------------------------end------------ Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176533
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    - Compare the values of two sorted arrays of variable size. Hi, This seems a bit of an old chestnut but please humour me ;) My aim is to compare two arrays and identify values in List A which don't appear in List B. And vice versa. My arrays are one dimensional and contain names. The number of elements in each array is not fixed. I've done some searching and there are two basic algorithms. The first contains a double loop where each element of the inner loop is compared to elements in the outer loop. At best it kicks out of the inner loop when a match is found. The second method seems to be more elegant but assumes the two arrays have already been sorted. Basically the indeces of the two arrays are incremented when an unmatched value is found. An example code can be found below which works ... until you place a unique value as the last element :( For example, if I have: ListA = Array("Andy", "Bob", "Cath", "Dexter") ListB = Array("Andy", "Bob", "Cath") BOTH "Cath" and "Dexter" are found to be unique! I switched the values of list A to B and came up with the same poor result. I'd appreciate it if someone could give this a fresh look and find the logic error. I've been staring at it for hours :( Many thanks in advance, Andy Script: Option Explicit Dim ListA ' To contain a sorted list of names, unknown size. Dim ListB ' To contain a sorted list of names, unknown size. Dim lngAIdx ' Index for list A. Dim lngBIdx ' Index for list B. Dim lngMaxAIdx ' Upper value of the A list index. Dim lngMaxBIdx ' Upper value of the B list index. Dim intComparison ' Result of comparing two strings ' ListA = Array("Andy", "Bob", "Cath", "Dexter") ListB = Array("Bob", "Cath", "Dexter") lngAIdx = LBound(ListA) lngBIdx = LBound(ListB) lngMaxAIdx = UBound(ListA) lngMaxBIdx = UBound(ListB) ' Do While (lngAIdx < lngMaxAIdx And lngBIdx < lngMaxBIdx) 'Perform a case insensitive comparison. intComparison = strComp(ListA(lngAIdx), ListB(lngBIdx), vbTextCompare) If intComparison = -1 Then ' ListA(lngAIdx) < ListB(lngBIdx) ' Value in A list is not present in the B list. WScript.Echo "Unique A Value: " & ListA(lngAIdx) lngAIdx = lngAIdx + 1 ' Update the A list index. ElseIf intComparison = 1 Then ' ListA(lngAIdx) > ListB(lngBIdx) ' Value in B list is not present in the A list. WScript.Echo "Unique B Value: " & ListB(lngBIdx) lngBIdx = lngBIdx + 1 ' Update the B list index. Else ' intComparison = 0 ' The value appears in both lists lngAIdx = lngAIdx + 1 lngBIdx = lngBIdx + 1 End If Loop ' 'Having reached this point, one of the lists has finished. 'Display the remaining unique values. If lngAIdx < lngMaxAIdx Then For lngAIdx = lngAIdx to lngMaxAIdx WScript.Echo "Remaining Unique A value: " & ListA(lngAIdx) Next End If ' If lngBIdx < lngMaxBIdx Then For lngBIdx = lngBIdx To lngMaxBIdx WScript.Echo "Remaining Unique B value: " & ListB(lngBIdx) Next End If WScript.Quit Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176520
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    - Debugger won't start My hard drive crashed and I had to reinstall everything fresh onto a new hard drive. I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2 with Office 2003, Visual Studio 6 (installed first), and Visual Studio .NET 2003. For some reason, now the debugger won't start. Normally, I am asked to select a debugger to use, but now nothing happens. In Intenet Explorer, if I select View -> Script Debugger -> Open, nothing happens. The "Browsing" seciton of the Internet Explorer Advanced options has "Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)" unchecked and "Disable Script Debugging (Other)" unchecked, and "Display a notification about every script error" is checked. I've searched Google but the only search terms I can think of are too generic and I get garbage back. Any ideas on this?? Thanks, Jon Davis Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176519
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    - Retrieving DC list I have a vbscript that needs to get a list of all the DCs in a given domain, be it NT4 or AD, but I don't know how. Any ideas? Thanks, rb Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176515
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    - Match MailboxGUID to ADuserAccount I need to match the MailboxGUID from an Exchange 2003 server to an AD Account. What WMI/AD property can I seach for that will have this GUID in it? I tried to use the Legacy information from the mailbox but some users have name changes (marriage) that fail lookups in AD. Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176513
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    - WScript Shell SendKeys to HTA Does anyone know of any limitations to using SendKeys to an HTA? I'm using a TEXTAREA element and sending keystrokes to it. It seems to work fine until a certain point. For example, in the code below, upon loading, it will loop from 1 to 1000, each time adding a line number then going to the next line. Results in the textarea _should_ look like this: 1 2 [...snip...] 999 1000 On my PC, it only goes to about 850 and looks like this: 1 2 [...snip...] 849 850 Occassionally it will stop a few characters more or less, but usually right about that location. If I run it through less than 850 (i.e. 800, even 845) it runs just fine. Maybe it's a machine speed limitation? I'd be curious to know if others get less or more on faster/slower PCs. I'm on a 3Ghz Dell Precision with 256MB RAM. --- Code Below --- <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Default HTA</TITLE> <HTA:APPLICATION> </HEAD> <SCRIPT Language="VBScript"> Sub PutInSampleText() Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") textbox.focus st = timer() For i = 1 to 1000 WshShell.SendKeys i & "{ENTER}" Next End Sub </SCRIPT> <BODY onLoad=PutInSampleText> <TEXTAREA COLS=40 ROWS=30 WRAP="off" ID="textbox"></TEXTAREA> </BODY> </HTML> Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176509
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    - script copying folders I'm looking to copy folders from one drive to another but I want the script to look inside a .txt file and only move the folders that are named in the text file. I know how to move one folder at a time with a script but I don't know how to get the script to look inside a .txt file to do it. Can anyone help. Thanks, KB Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176507
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    - getting script to run subroutines The subroutines in this script are supposed to map a group drive and a network printer but isn't doing either. I'm really DESPARATE to get this script working. Some have already helped me with it and I appriciate it but if anyone has the key on how to get this script to map a home drive, all necessary group drives, and applicable printer I would be greatly appriciative. last week my boss gave me a batch file that sort of does this but if a person is a member of multiple groups it doesn't work. Thank you, Mandy Dunn Option Explicit 'all variables defined prior to use Dim fServer 'file server Dim home 'home directory Dim wshNet ' Dim ADSysInfo Dim CurrentUser Dim strGroups Dim colstrGroups Dim GroupMember Dim a,b,c,d Const CSC = "cn=CSC Windows Service Group" Const MARKETING = "cn=marketinggroup" Const SALES = "cn=salesgroup" fServer = "\\loan.ad.cob.ohio-state.edu" home = "\\loan\users" Set wshNet = CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set ADSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") Set CurrentUser = GetObject("LDAP://" _ & ADSysInfo.UserName) colstrGroups = CurrentUser.memberOf If IsEmpty(colstrGroups) Then strGroups = "" If strGroups = "" Then Wscript.Echo("you are not a member of any groups.") ElseIf TypeName(colstrGroups) = "String" Then strGroups = LCase(colstrGroups) Else strGroups =LCase(Join(colstrGroups)) End If End If wshNet.MapNetworkDrive "h:", fServer & "\Users\" _ & wshNet.UserName WScript.Echo(wshNet.Username & " " & strgroups) Select Case GroupMember case a = InStr(strGroups, CSC) CSCsub case b = InStr(strGroups, SALES) SalesSub case c = InStr(strGroups, MARKETING) MarketingSub End Select Sub CSCsub 'This subRoutine maps a printer WScript.Echo("made it to CSC") wshNet.MapNetworkDrive "g:","\\loan\group\CSC\" wshNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection _ "\\loan\mh320-csc-hp8000" wshNet.SetDefaultPrinter "\\loan\mh320-csc-hp8000" End Sub Sub SalesSub WScript.Echo("made it to sales") wshNet.MapNetworkDrive "s:", "\\loan\Sales" wshNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection _ "\\loan\SalesPrinter" wshNet.SetDefaultPrinter "\\loan\SalesPrinter" End Sub Sub MarketingSub WScript.Echo("made it to marketing") wshNet.MapNetworkDrive "m:","\\loan\Marketing\" wshNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection _ "\\loan\MarketingPrinter" wshNet.SetDefaultPrinter _ "\\loan\MarketingPrinter" End Sub Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176504
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    - access excel objects from web page Is it possible to access excel objects of xls document loaded in the browser from the vb script of the WEB page? Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176497
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    - How to pass parameters to vbscript Hi, Does anybody know how to pass the parameter to vbscript file. For example CScript A.vbs <Paramater> Where can I find the sample vbs code. Thanks in advance Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176495
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    - Lock computer Hello, how can I lock windows xp (win+F) by vbscript, is it possible? Thanks Tom Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176493
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    - number conversion help needed I need assistance reversing the conversion function below. Given a real number I need the result as an 8 character string (hex). wscript.echo IEEE_to_VAX_float(1.5) Function IEEE_to_VAX_float(a) ' Dim fraction' As Double ' Dim exponent' As Double ' Dim sign' As Integer ' ' If a = Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) Then ' fraction = 0: exponent = 0 ' Else ' sign = (-1) ^ Int(Asc(Mid(a, 2, 1)) / 128) ' exponent = Int(Asc(Left(a, 1)) / 128) + 2 * (Asc(Mid(a, 2, 1)) Mod 128) - 128 ' fraction = 0.5 + 2 ^ (-8) * (Asc(Left(a, 1)) Mod 128) _ ' + 2 ^ (-24) * Asc(Mid(a, 3, 1)) _ ' + 2 ^ (-16) * Asc(Mid(a, 4, 1)) ' End If IEEE_to_VAX_float = ????? End Function Its based on the following function which conversts VAX float to IEEE. The VAX machines had several formats such as VAX F, G and D. I'm not sure which format this function supports but its the correct one for me. wscript.echo VAX_float_to_IEEE(Chr(&Hf7) & Chr(&H40) & Chr(&H9f) & Chr(&H1a)) Function VAX_float_to_IEEE(a)' As Double 'convert vax floats and doubles to ieee format Dim fraction' As Double Dim exponent' As Double Dim sign' As Integer ' Select Case Len(a) ' Case 8 ' If a = Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) Then ' fraction = 0: exponent = 0 ' Else ' sign = (-1) ^ Int(Asc(Mid(a, 2, 1)) / 128) ' exponent = Int(Asc(Left(a, 1)) / 16) + 16 * (Asc(Mid(a, 2, 1)) Mod 128) - 1024 ' fraction = 0.5 + 2 ^ (-5) * (Asc(Left(a, 1)) Mod 16) _ ' + 2 ^ (-21) * Asc(Mid(a, 3, 1)) _ ' + 2 ^ (-13) * Asc(Mid(a, 4, 1)) _ ' + 2 ^ (-37) * Asc(Mid(a, 5, 1)) _ ' + 2 ^ (-29) * Asc(Mid(a, 6, 1)) _ ' + 2 ^ (-53) * Asc(Mid(a, 7, 1)) _ ' + 2 ^ (-45) * Asc(Mid(a, 8, 1)) ' End If ' Case 4 If a = Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) Then fraction = 0: exponent = 0 Else sign = (-1) ^ Int(Asc(Mid(a, 2, 1)) / 128) exponent = Int(Asc(Left(a, 1)) / 128) + 2 * (Asc(Mid(a, 2, 1)) Mod 128) - 128 fraction = 0.5 + 2 ^ (-8) * (Asc(Left(a, 1)) Mod 128) _ + 2 ^ (-24) * Asc(Mid(a, 3, 1)) _ + 2 ^ (-16) * Asc(Mid(a, 4, 1)) End If ' Case Else ' sign = 1 ' fraction = "some text to generate error" ' exponent = 0 ' End Select VAX_float_to_IEEE = fraction * sign * 2 ^ exponent End Function thanks LJB Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176492
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    - ADO connection through UDL file Using VBS - this works: conn.open "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Password=X;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=Y;Initial Catalog=MyDB;Data Source=MyServer" However this does not: conn.open "File Name=uaccess.udl" (the UDL file contains the same working connection string) I've tried every combination of FileName/FILE NAME, but no joy. Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176491
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    - User account and Personal folder mismatch script HI I found this script a few weeks ago and found it perfect til i realised it had a few limitations. The original script was great and thanks to the guys for there work. The problem i'm finding is that my servers don't have the same amount of folders as users, be default service accounts and other admin accounts etc don't run the logon script and hence don't have a personal folder. From what i can understand the script gets to the end of the folder list and then stops which isn't ideal as there are many more user accounts etc that it isn't checking. Here is the code and i would appreciate any help as the theory of what i need to do is confusing me already. There is a lot of tidying i can do with the script but in the meantime i really need the script to check the entire contents of the personal folder location and the entire contents of the domain user list if possible Thanks M ----------------------------------------- '================= 'Name: orphanV2.vbs 'Author: Tim Sullivan 'Date: 04.01.2005 'Info: This is a script to check for orphaned home folders. It reads the name of the folder, and ' looks for a corresponding AD user account. The original concept for this script was done by ' Alan Kaplan (alan@akaplan.com), and a lot has been borrowed from it. ' ' I made this one to look at the folder names, rather than the SID of the folder owner. This ' worked better for me, as our home folder names are the same as our domain usernames. '================= Dim AppendOut Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell") strDomain = WSHNetwork.UserDomain strComputer = WSHNetwork.ComputerName '================= 'Pre script running checks. '=== syscheck '=== 'If Wscript is being used, script is restarted with Cscript instead. '=== If (Not IsCScript()) Then WshShell.Run "CScript.exe " & quote & WScript.ScriptFullName & quote, 1, true WScript.Quit End If '================= 'User input area and error checking. '================= strDomain = InputBox("Enter your netbios domain name here.", "Domain Name", strDomain) If strDomain = "" Then quitmessage = "Domain cannot be blank. Exiting!" Abort End If strTargetServer = Inputbox("Enter the target server name.", "Target Server Name", strComputer) If strTargetServer = "" Then quitmessage = "Target server cannot be blank. Exiting!" Abort End If strTargetServer = UCase(strTargetServer) strStartFolder = InputBox("Enter the starting folder path. Be sure not to put any leading or trailing slashes. Follow the example in the box.", "Search Start Path", "C:\Documents and settings") If strStartFolder = "" Then quitmessage = "Starting folder cannot be blank. Exiting!" Abort End If '===== 'Convert inputs to UNC '===== strUNCStart = "\\" & strTargetServer &"\"& Replace(strStartFolder,":","$") WScript.Echo strUNCStart If not objFSO.FolderExists(strUNCStart) Then quitmessage = strUNCStart & " Not Found" abort End If '==== 'Prepare our output log file '==== logsetup '================= '================= 'Here we get our list of folders, and call our function to actually find 'our little lost orphanes. '==== Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strUNCStart) Set colSubfolders = objFolder.Subfolders For Each objSubFolder in colSubfolders strCheckFolder = objSubFolder.name Validate(strCheckFolder) If strADPres = "Present" Then EchoAndLog Date & "," & Time & "," & strUNCStart & "\" & objSubFolder.Name & "," & "Folder/User is ok." Else EchoAndLog Date & "," & Time & "," & strUNCStart & "\" & objSubFolder.Name & "," & "Folder/User is bad. User Not Found!" End If Next '================= 'Functions and sub-routines '================= 'System check functions. Checks VBScript version, and verifies WMI is installed. Sub syscheck() Dim major,minor, ver, key, key2 major = (ScriptEngineMinorVersion()) Minor = (ScriptEngineMinorVersion())/10 Ver = major + minor If err.number or ver < 5.5 then quitmessage = "You have WScript Version " & ver & ". Please load Version 5.5" End If err.clear key = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{E92B03AB-B707-11d2-9CBD-0000F87A369E}\version" key2 = WshShell.RegRead (key) if err <> 0 then quitmessage = quitmessage & "ADSI must be installed on local workstation to continue" & vbCrLf abort End if End Sub '=== 'Function to handle aborting the script. '=== Function Abort() 'error message handler wshShell.Popup quitmessage,0,"Abort",vbCritical WScript.Quit End Function '==== 'Sub routine for preparing the output log file. '==== Sub logsetup() On Error goto 0 Dim arTemp logpath= wshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop") & "\" arTemp= Split(WScript.ScriptName,".") 'Script Name found" logfile = logpath & artemp(0)& ".csv" 'append .CSV 'setup Log WriteType = 2 ' forwriting 'presume for writing. Usually done as constant... If objFSO.FileExists(logfile) Then retval = MsgBox("Logfile Exists, do you want to append?",vbyesno + vbdefaultbutton1,"Old Log File") If retval = vbyes Then writeType = 8 'change type to append End If End If On Error Resume next Set AppendOut = objFSO.OpenTextFile(logfile, WriteType, True) If Err <> 0 Then MsgBox "You must close the log file!",vbcritical + vbinformation,"Fatal Error" WScript.Quit End If On Error goto 0 If WriteType = 2 Then 'only write header if new file Appendout.writeline "Date,Time,Folder UNC,Status" End If End sub '===== 'Output subroutine '===== Sub EchoAndLog (message) Wscript.Echo message AppendOut.WriteLine message End Sub '=== 'Function for determining if CScript is being used. '=== Function IsCScript() If (InStr(UCase(WScript.FullName), "CSCRIPT") <> 0) Then IsCScript = True Else IsCScript = False End If End Function '=== 'Function for comparing foldername against AD. '=== Function Validate(strCheckFldr) On Error Resume Next Dim objSAMUser Err.Clear Set objSAMUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strDomain & "/" & strCheckFolder & ",user") If Err.Number = 0 Then strADPres = "Present" Validate = True Else strADPres = "NotPresent" Validate = False End If Set objSAMUser = Nothing End Function '================ 'End Of Script '================ Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176487
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    - How to capture cgi variables in VBScript Hi All, Can somebody suggest me how to capture the cgi variable in vbscript do we have some geCGIVariable() function in vbscript Thanks and Regards Bala Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176481
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    - WinNT provider scripts not always returning complete results Can someone please explain this to me.. I run the following script as it is and i get the complete list of disabled user accounts in either my Windows 2003 domain or the NT4 domain we have. However if i comment out the Wscript.Echo and un-commment the txt.Writeline line below it i only get approx 14 users returned when it should return 177 users. That is against a Win 2003 domain. It's pretty frustrating and i'm really trying to figure out why. As you will see the logging to the text file also logs the Full Name and LostLogin but surely that shouldn't effect the results. Can anyone please help with this as i have a few others scripts i use that i really need to know i'm getting the consistent results from. Thanks in advance On Error Resume Next ' Create system objects Set wshShell = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") Counter = 0 strDomain = InputBox("Enter your domain name here.", "Domain Name") strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop") Set oFileSys = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set txt = oFileSys.OpenTextFile (strDesktop & "\" & strDomain & "_" & "_DisabledUsers.csv", 2, True) txt.WriteLine "User Name" & "," & "Users Full Name" & "," & "Last Login Time" Set objDomain = GetObject("WinNT://" & strDomain) objDomain.Filter = Array("User") WScript.Echo "The following domain accounts are disabled in domain: " & UCase (objdomain.Name) For Each UserAccount In objDomain If UserAccount.AccountDisabled = True Then WScript.Echo UserAccount.Name 'txt.WriteLine UserAccount.Name & "," & UserAccount.FullName & "," & UserAccount.LastLogin End If Next Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176479
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    - web based email client and attachments hello if somebody send out any documents with web based email, how can i check or make a copy from this file? it should be a security setting but i cannot find any. Is there any script which can log or make a copy it for me? Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176478
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    - connect printers by IP Hi, I would like to know how can I install printers if: i) I know the IP of all printers and all of them are not connected to print servers. ii) The drivers are all at stored at the a network drive Thanks in advance. Tag: Lock CD Drive via script Tag: 176476

The button on my laptop is situated so that I periodically touch it
accidentally and open the drive bay. If I am in the middle of watching a
video, it is annoying. If I am installing software it can be disasterous. Is
there any command I can run from a script that will disable the button,
effectively locking the drive shut? Obviously I would also like to be able
to unlock it.

RE: Lock CD Drive via script by StephenMcC

StephenMcC
Thu Jun 23 08:04:03 CDT 2005

I personally have no idea, but I'd be interested to see if it's possible. Why
not put ur query to the 'The Hey, Scripting Guy! Archive' @
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/hsgarch.mspx

"de Graff" wrote:

> The button on my laptop is situated so that I periodically touch it
> accidentally and open the drive bay. If I am in the middle of watching a
> video, it is annoying. If I am installing software it can be disasterous. Is
> there any command I can run from a script that will disable the button,
> effectively locking the drive shut? Obviously I would also like to be able
> to unlock it.
>
>
>

Re: Lock CD Drive via script by Lee

Lee
Thu Jun 23 09:08:38 CDT 2005

I'm just wondering what kind of laptop has the CD eject button located
somewhere where it can be "accidently" touched.

Lee

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 06:04:03 -0700, "StephenMcC"
<StephenMcC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I personally have no idea, but I'd be interested to see if it's possible. Why
>not put ur query to the 'The Hey, Scripting Guy! Archive' @
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/hsgarch.mspx
>
>"de Graff" wrote:
>
>> The button on my laptop is situated so that I periodically touch it
>> accidentally and open the drive bay. If I am in the middle of watching a
>> video, it is annoying. If I am installing software it can be disasterous. Is
>> there any command I can run from a script that will disable the button,
>> effectively locking the drive shut? Obviously I would also like to be able
>> to unlock it.
>>
>>
>>

Re: Lock CD Drive via script by de

de
Fri Jun 24 05:16:29 CDT 2005

It's a Toshiba and it is located on the right side exactly where you put one
hand when you want to move it. IBM Thinkpads are the same.