Category Archives: Scripting

Retrieve System Time within a Batch File

I’ve shown you previously how to get the date value from the system in a batch file. You can also grab the time in a similar fashion.

VBScript: Dump AD Users to Excel

This handy little script will dump out your Active Directory users to an Excel spreadsheet. Simply run it with an account that has the necessary permissions to query AD, and it will do the rest, including notify you with a dialog box when it is done.

Automated Log Archiving with WinRAR and Robocopy

In my day job, one of the things I do is maintenance of a farm of servers. All these boxes have local logging, which is picked up by Splunk. However, I still need to clean up those log files. Here is how I automated the process.

Install Roles on Windows via PowerShell

Just because you don’t have a GUI on your Windows Server 2012 doesn’t mean you can’t install roles and features at will. Use PowerShell, and the job gets easy.

Create a System Restore Point with VBscript

This handy little VBscript to create a system restore point can be encapsulated in a function and can save you from yourself.

Create 5000 AD Users with VBScript

From time to time, it might be required that large number of generic user account objects be created in an Active Directory domain. Here is how to do it, quickly.

Join a Computer to a domain with VBScript

When deploying large numbers of computers, there are several methods of joining a machine to a domain. Since I am a big fan of VBScript (shhh!), I use this method to join the machine.

Managing Portgroups with PowerCLI

If your VMware implementation contains more than a few hosts, managing port groups (or any multi-host settings) can be a real pain. In order to take advantage of cool things like vMotion, your port groups need to match across all hosts in the cluster. If one of them is misspelled, or has a bad VLAN tag, it’s a… Read More »