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MS recently released a script called patchinstall.vbs to help deploy the latest security patch. It would probably provide you with most of the framework necessary to do what you are asking with only a little modification. Mike

I am looking for any pointers, code samples, and/or documentation on coding Active Directory authentication into an application. I have spent some time on the searching the web, but I haven't been able to locate much of anything that is really applicable. Scenario: We are revising an...

You must use your DNS server for Active Directory functions to work correctly. I believe if you set up your AD DNS server to use the other two addresses for name resolution your problem should be resolved. You would leave the gateway where it has always been. Thanks. Mike

I just ran across some information from a colleague. Both the machine account and the user account must be a member of the group assigned apply rights. This is true by default of the group Authenticated Users but is not as evident in the documentation for refining the policies further...

Where are you creating the GPO if it is in the computer container you must set Loopback processing for the user settings to take place. I have found that if you make too many changes to a GPO at one time it presents this behaviour. I haven't researched it enough to tell you what too many is...

That was it. Thanks a lot. Mike

The problem is almost certainly that when you add the hard drive the bios is considering it disk 0 because of you lacking a c: drive no matter what physical position you put it in. I believe if you will change your boot.ini file to use rdisk(1), shutdown, add the drive, and then reboot that it...

Thanks. The line that causes the error is sComputer(i) = sSplit(0). The Var was a typo. I saw another typo where I have fs1 instead of fs. These were from various tests. The code still creates the Type Mismatch with everything correct. Thanks. Mike Dim sComputer Dim sSplit Dim sStatus...

Test script to read file..... 'Declare Variables and Constants Dim sComputer Dim sSplit Dim sStatus Dim sService Const forReading = 1, forWriting = 2, forAppending = 8 'instantiate FileStystem Object set fs = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 'Process file If...

Below is an e-mail (slightly altered for privacy) from a colleague that covers cheaply monitoring event logs using freeware tools. Here is a quick dirty example using a tool called psloglist from www.sysinternals.com, a freeware utility. This command dumps the security log and clears it...

Did you apply any service packs to the server? I have seen a similar problem arise after a service pack installation. In order to fix a vulnerability, MS made a change that all but 1 release of TSWeb would function. I would recommend downloading the latest version of tsweb and installing it...

I would suggest a slightly more complicated approach to address both w2k and win98 machines. I would create a group and assign the two users to this group. I would then create the appropriate GPO in the computers OU. By default, the GPO will have authenticated users assigned to apply the...

If you are installing the new drive on the same IDE channel, are you installing the new drive as the slave? If you are installing the drive to a different IDE port, are you connecting the original IDE drive in the first IDE port. Mike

cmdline = "xcacls d:\userdata\home\" & strUserId & " /P administrators:F /Y"

Background: I am writing a script to e-mail Server down events and Service failure events to a select group of admins for a specified list of servers. I write the results of my WMI query to a text file. In order to not recieve multiple e-mails for the same event I test for the existence of my...