Subscribe via RSSI’ve started testing the waters with the latest build of MSH/Monad. There is of course a nascent Monad script hub at the Technet Script Center. I took inspiration from there and came up with a quick shell script to display services in on the local system. Services that are running are displayed in Green and…
Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators Published
According to my Microsoft Press project editor, Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows Administrators, is now published. Many online sellers are slowly updating their databases. You can now order the book although I can’t guarantee what the shipping situation might be. It might be 4-6 weeks before you see the book on a shelf at places…
Advanced VBScript book open for pre-orders
According to Microsoft Press, Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows Administrators, will be available for order beginning January 18, 2006. Bookpool has a pre-order link here which will save you 37% and I think free shipping. Here is the link for Borders/Amazon.
Finding Service Uptime
Ever wonder how long a particular service has been running? With WMI you can come pretty close to getting a handle on this. We start with Win32_Service to get the current process handle. Once we have that, we can query the Win32_Process class and get the creation time for that particular process. You need to…
Primal Script 4.0 Enterprise Release
SAPIEN Technologies has finally released PrimalScript4 Enterprise. The product offers a wealth of scripting power including a great script packager (convert your scripts to an exe complete with alternate credentials), a database browser (including a Visual Query Builder), ADSI and WM wizards, and a remote script execution feature. With this you can execute scripts remotely…
Techmentor 2006 Orlando
I will be co-teaching the Scripting track at the Orlando Techmentor conference with Don Jones (March 20-24,2006). The courses will cover topics such as command line scripting, Exchange 2003 scripting, web scripting, ADSI, WMI Virtual Server 2005 and more. If you can make it down, I hope you’ll stop by and say hello. As an…
Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators
I’ve written a book with Don Jones on advanced VBScript topics. The book starts with a crash course on Windows scripting so even if you’ve only had a little exposure to VBScript, WMI, or ADSI you can get up to speed quickly. In the book we cover some advanced WMI scripting techniques, getting the most…