Happy Holiday HTA
Send an HTA greeting card that features a holiday tree with blinking multicolored lights and a "Happy Holidays" greeting. You can easily personalize the greeting.
Windows IT Pro - Jim Turner
Test for Numerous Conditions with PowerShell's switch Statement
PowerShell's switch statement lets you test for many conditions and perform different actions when those conditions are met, making it ideal for such tasks as retrieving event log entries and performing specific actions based on the type of entry.
Windows IT Pro - Robert Sheldon
Enabling Vista's Hibernation
Windows IT Pro - Michael Otey
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[November 13, 2008]
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Accessing SQL Server Data from PowerShell, Part 1
Learn how to use ADO.NET to retrieve SQL Server data through PowerShell scripts.
Windows IT Pro - Robert Sheldon
Moving from Command Shell scripting to PowerShell
Windows IT Pro - Michael Otey
VBScript Functions Let You Easily Export Data from One Script to Another
If you often need to use one script's data in another script, the SaveDictionary and LoadDictionary functions might make your job a whole lot easier.
Windows IT Pro - Karen Bemowski
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[November 6, 2008]
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Exchange Management with EMS: Setting Properties
Exchange Management Shell lets you set mailbox quotas, establish maintenance cycles, and manage every aspect of your Exchange environment, and built-in safety features help you get into property manipulation without fear of breaking anything.
Windows IT Pro - Paul Robichaux
Winsat Command-Line Utility
The Windows System Assessment Tool encompasses much more than the Windows Experience Index--its command-line capabilities can help with troubleshooting.
Windows IT Pro - David Chernicoff
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[November 1, 2008]
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Are Recycle Bins Wasting a Lot of Space on Your Windows Servers?
Here's a VBScript script you can use to monitor how much disk space is being consumed by the Recycle Bins stored in a server's Recycler folder and how much space is available on that server's local hard drives.
Windows IT Pro - Jim Turner
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[November 1, 2008]
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Vista's UAC Can Cause Problems When Writing and Running Scripts
Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) can cause problems and annoyances when developing and testing VBScript scripts that require administrator access. Here's how you can avoid those problems and annoyances without disabling UAC.
Windows IT Pro - Jim Turner
Controlling Your Code's Flow with PowerShell's Conditional Statements
PowerShell's if, for, and while statements let you present conditions and the actions to occur when those conditions are met. You can even specify the actions to occur when a condition isn't met.
Windows IT Pro - Robert Sheldon
Do More with For
Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) includes UNIX and Linux binaries that you can run from a Windows command line or in a batch file. When you combine the SFU commands with the Windows For command, you can create powerful tools.
Windows IT Pro - Readers
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[October 23, 2008]
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Avoid Ugly Computer Inventory Reports—Save Your Script's Output in Microsoft Word
Here's a VBScript script that retrieves a computer's memory and process information, then writes it to a nicely formatted Microsoft Word report. The report is customizable—you can even include an image, such as a company logo, on the report’s title page.
Windows IT Pro - Readers
Registering ESX Server VMs using the Console
Windows IT Pro - Michael Otey
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[October 14, 2008]
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Whip Script Data Into Shape
Two simple functions let WSH scripts export dictionary data to an XML file and read it back with no extra work.
Windows IT Pro - Alex K. Angelopoulos
Free Utility Lets You Retrieve a Little or a Lot of Inventory Information
Although billed as "lite," the System Inventory Lite utility doesn't skimp on functionality. With this utility, you can perform a complete inventory of computer systems or retrieve just the specific information you need.
Windows IT Pro - Karen Bemowski
Download Hyper-V Server 2008
Try out Hyper-V Server 2008
Windows IT Pro - Michael Otey
Iterating Through Collections with PowerShell's foreach Loops
Windows PowerShell provides two types of foreach loops: the foreach statement and the ForEach-Object cmdlet. Although you can obtain the same results with both types of loops, they differ in several important respects.
Windows IT Pro - Robert Sheldon
Listing Members of an AD Group
Use this command to list all members of a specified AD Group.
Windows IT Pro - John Savill
Mimic Vista's Event Triggers in XP
Windows Vista lets you create event-triggered actions through Event Viewer. You can achieve the same functionality in Window XP using a VBScript script and the eventtrigger.exe command-line utility.
Windows IT Pro - Readers
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