Jan 26 2013
Overview Since the introduction of User Account Control (UAC), scripts do not run with administrator privileges despite being a local administrator. You must elevate your script to run with administrator privileges. I’ll start by showing you a simple example. The script below will list all of the processes on the local computer as well as …
Jan 25 2013
‘========================================================================= ‘ ElevateWscript.vbs ‘ VERSION: 1.0 ‘ AUTHOR: Brian Steinmeyer ‘ EMAIL: [email protected] ‘ WEB: https://sigkillit.com ‘ DATE: 1/25/2012 ‘ COMPATIBLE: Windows Vista, Server 2008, and Above ‘ COMMENTS: Since the introduction of UAC in Windows, despite being an ‘ administrator you may still need to run a script with elevated ‘ privileges. For example …
Jan 24 2013
Did you ever try to create a new email address and receive an error message that it already exists? Or did you ever have someone ask who is using an email address? Here are some methods to find the email address: 1 – Active Directory Users and Computers Saved Queries (Server 2003 and up) In …
Jan 23 2013
If you have ever worked with VMWare’s vSphere, I’m sure there has come a time that you needed to modify or remove Windows VM Disk. Sure, it’s a simple enough task, but what if you have multiple disks that are the same size? How can you correctly identify the virtual disk in vSphere? Luckily, it …
Jan 22 2013
‘========================================================================= ‘ ComputerInventory.vbs ‘ VERSION: 1.0 ‘ AUTHOR: Brian Steinmeyer ‘ EMAIL: [email protected] ‘ WEB: https://sigkillit.com ‘ DATE: 1/21/2013 ‘ COMPATIBLE: Windows XP+, Server 2003+. If you are using on Windows 2003, ‘ to get correct CPU Physical and Core Counts make sure you have the following ‘ hotfix installed: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932370 ‘ COMMENTS: Loops through …
Jan 18 2013
‘========================================================================= ‘ PingHost.vbs ‘ VERSION: 1.0 ‘ AUTHOR: Brian Steinmeyer ‘ EMAIL: [email protected] ‘ WEB: https://sigkillit.com ‘ DATE: 1/17/2013 ‘ COMMENTS: Pass a hostname or IP to the function and the number of times ‘ you wish to ping the host/IP, and it will return whether it is succesful ‘ or not. ‘ EXAMPLE: Ping …
Jan 18 2013
‘========================================================================= ‘ CheckHTTPStatus.vbs ‘ VERSION: 1.0 ‘ AUTHOR: Brian Steinmeyer ‘ EMAIL: [email protected] ‘ WEB: https://sigkillit.com ‘ DATE: 1/17/2013 ‘ COMMENTS: Pass the URL and optionally a username/password to the Function ‘ and it will check the HTTP return status code. ‘ EXAMPLE: Check If Website is Running ‘ Dim strURL: strURL = “http://www.domain.com” ‘ …
Jan 18 2013
‘========================================================================= ‘ CheckServiceRunning.vbs ‘ VERSION: 1.0 ‘ AUTHOR: Brian Steinmeyer ‘ EMAIL: [email protected] ‘ WEB: https://sigkillit.com ‘ DATE: 1/17/2013 ‘ COMMENTS: Pass the computer/servername to the function and the Service name ‘ and it will return whether the service is running. ‘ EXAMPLE: Check if the Print Spooler is Running ‘ strComputer = “Server” ‘ …
Jan 14 2013
Here is a class I wrote to generate a DHCP message. It’s primary purpose is to send a DHCP message, which can be useful for finding DHCP servers on a network using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Net; using System.Globalization; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; namespace SigkillDHCP { public class DhcpMessage { …