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I am new to scripting and figure that one of you guru might have already accomplish what I am trying to get done. We have migrated all our printers from the old print server to the new one. I want to write a script that will delete thin client printers from the old print server and remapped it...

Thanks Mark, I did find it helpful. MCSE 2000 Computer Engineering Technology

I have a script that delete couples of icons of the desktop and places new icon on the desktop. Howeve, the deleted icons stays on the desktop until the user refreshes the screen. I want to add a line of code to the script that will refresh the desktop for the user. Please held. MCSE 2000...

Thanks PHV, that is exactly what I was looking for and it worked like magic. Have a star. MCSE 2000 Computer Engineering Technology

I created a script that place 3 shortcuts on the user desktops. These shortcuts are also scripts that launch programs on the computer (For example, when the script is double click, it checks for given conditions before opening the program). My boss want these script icons to look like the...

RhythmAddict112, you're da man! This is what I am going to do. Thank you. MCSE 2000 Computer Engineering Technology

Our sales team is constantly on the road and have to rely on vpn to access resources within the organization. There are two dabase programs that they use frequently. We learn recently that those two apps can't run simutanously on their laptop or they will have a problem. That is why our...

This is a good starting point RhythmAddict112 and thanks for it. Now, I want to take this a step farther. This script only check to see if a given app is running. I want a script that will do this when the user try to open a second app. For example the user should get a dialog box that said...

Can you please be more specific. The wmi process execquery did that return anything useful when I entered it in the search bar above and asked to search post. The close I have come across was a user wanting wanting to pop-up box on word, powerpoint, and excel. If someone can provide a link to...

Hello, I am new to scripting and have a major task that was handed to me by my bosss. I need to write a script that will control two applications. Only one of these apps should be allow to run on the user box at any given time. If the user click/open app 1, the script should check to see if...

I think the problem is in your configuration. If I was in your shoe, I will start from RAS101 and make sure I have completed each step properly before moving ahead. I will stay away from the wizard, and check AD to make sure that this computer is a member of IAS and RAS. I will create a new...

There are two way you can go about this from the top of my head. First, you should have created OUs which is perfect for this situation. With OUs, you could delegate control to these admin and give them limited roles over the OUs. If you didn't create OUs and you are stuck with the domain...

Use group policies to define an environment that will meet the users need and not their wants. Apply that policy to the computer. Secondly, you might want to consider moving to a version of the software that might solve this problem. This is what Microsoft has recommended. MCSE 2000 Computer...

I don't understand your question. Please provide a little more info. MCSE 2000 Computer Engineering Technology

No pete questions are good. OUs are used to organize a network into logical pattern. No you can't have the same object in more than one OU. Users, computers, services, etc... have security principle. For this reason they can't be located all over the place. For example, you create user John...