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Shorten printer name on remote desktop logon

I need to run a script when a user logs on using Remote Desktop.  I have an application that doesn't accept printer names over 24 characters long.  I've searched and searched and have the below code,...

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VBS trying to find a link on users desktops on a list of computers in my network

Ok, I provide a list of computers in a text file to the code.  The code searches all users on each computer and determines if a file exists or not.  If it exists it records the computer/user name as...

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Trying to create a VB script to open Notepad with data.

Greetings all, I could use some assistance with getting this script to work.  What I am trying to do is to pull the log from a remote workstation, and take that data and have it open into Notepad.Const...

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Pinging multiple host names and verifying the IP addresses

Hi Experts, I am novice to the batch scripting. I am looking to fullfill one of my requirement. I have one host file which is having multiple host names and IP addresses. Below is the example of the...

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Batch command time out

Hey I have a script that needs to run a command and a few commands afterwards. The issue is, is that the one command has a tendency to never finish when it actually does. Is there a way for me to...

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CSV to PRN Automation

I need some help with this code. It works like 99%, but every once in a while I get print from the PRN file that goes beyond the 2 space placeholder that I set in the bottom part of the code....

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Array assignment to [#,#,#] failed because assignment to slices is not supported

Please consider the following fail:PS C:\> $x=@("a","b","c","d","e") PS C:\> $x[1..3]=@("x","y","z") Array assignment to [1,2,3] failed because assignment to slices is not supported. At line:1...

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How can I automatically get a link to open in Chrome while using Firefox?

I'm trying to get a specific link in Firefox to open in Chrome. I need to run it this way for the link i'm opening.

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Using DOM DocumentFragments to update HTA Listbox using VBScript

Hey, Scripting Guy!I followed -> http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2005/08/15/how-can-i-dynamically-populate-a-list-box-in-an-hta.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage to...

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Any way to feed username/password into the following cmdlet? ===...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj657535.aspxI want to be able to put my username/password in a script so I don't have to input the username/password manually

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Get-WinEvent - Security

I've been trying to use eventcombmt to find some user logon attempts but the application crashes. Since there are no other alternatives I thought PowerShell would be my friend.I need to crawl the...

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Not able to store the value in the variable

Dear All,I am trying to read the file and storing the fileds into the variable. But facing below issue while running the script.myfile.txt127.0.0.1 BLRKEC272851D Test1 Test2 127.0.0.2 Test3 Test4...

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Script that will back up an existing file then replaces it with an updated one

Hi All,Well, I have little knowledge about scripting so I tried to search the net for a program that will replace a file with an updated one after it has been backed up. I was thinking of a script that...

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Avoiding comments while reading file in powershell

Hi Experts,I am reading a host file file using getcontes cmdlet.$lines = Get-Content myfile.txt | Where {$_ -notmatch '^\s+$'} foreach ($line in $lines) { $fields = $line -split '\s+' $ip = $fields[0]...

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VB script to list the software installed from a list of computers

I have a vb script which will list the software installed on local machine.Is there any way to read the computer names from a list and provide the output to a csv file. Output should contain Computer...

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How to check a list of users against AD if they exist

Hi Scripting Guys,I have a powershell script that allows me to query a list of users against AD, and if they exist, it will write their details into a new file.I want to adapt this script so that it...

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SQL Powershell for executing objects in multiples SQL Servers

Hi All,The following are the requirements in building the powershell script.1) Need to find whether the given stored procedure exists in a particular DB in a list of servers.(Server list will be given...

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I want to generate log which should show in the event viewer when the...

I want to generate log which should show in the event viewer when the powershell starts in a machine. That log can be having information about machine name or IP address etc..

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Vbscript Exit Code

Hello,i'm using a software that is automatically running Vbscripts and prints out the output. i want the softwareto print out the same message each time the script fails to run, due to a VBScript...

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Powershell bcdedit.exe

Has anyone figured out how to take the normal bcdedit.exe /enum response and convert it to objects?  In the example below....if you had created and an array of objects called $bcdedit then you can loop...

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