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I have a question about the account lockout attribute in AD. We have a current process in place that disables users when they take a leave of absense. I'm being asked to change the process to "lockout" the user versus "disabling" the user b/c it's causing some other areas some headaches. So...

Just wondering if this is possible. Let's say you have a large quantity of AD groups sequentially named: Group-001; Group-002; Group-003........Group-100 I'd like to issue a single command to see each group and it's membership but I couldn't seem to figure out how to do it. Went on about my...

I'm attempting to JOIN two tables in SQL Server 2000, but I need to pass a variable somehow from one to the other (or perhaps there is some other method I'm not aware of). Here is my current JOIN and gives me the results I currently want, but I need to expand it. SELECT e.* FROM Table1 AS e...

So I've run into a rather confusing issue with a script I'm writing to update userWorkstations attribute. Below is a simplified version of what I'm doing (hopefully with no typos): strUserDN = "CN=username,OU=Users,DC=xyz,DC=com" Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUserDN) strUser =...

I'm attempting to gather a large quantity of data from the group objects in our AD using vbScript. So far the script keeps failing on the same group object. In someone's infinite wisdom they've put a "/" character in a group's name which means the group's DN also has the "/". When I pass...

Having some problems retrieving the logonWorkstation user attribute from Active Directory. I'm assuming the attribute I need is logonWorkstation (i.e. From ADUC, on a user's profile, it's on the Account tab, "Log On To...". Used to lock an ID down to only be able to login to specific...

Is it possible to extract data from SQL tables into an array with VBscript? Everything I've seen online seems to deal with ASP, but I need an automated script that runs nightly against a SQL DB. A crude example of what I'm trying to do would be reading in all userID's from a SQL table with a...

Is it possible to use a CSV or text file in conjunction with a DSQUERY or a DSMOD? i.e. Let's say I have a list of user IDs in a text file and I want to check and see if each one in the file is enabled using a DS commands. I can do it in VBscript, but I'm looking for a quicker way...

I cannot find my Windows Server 2k3 Standard (Corporate Edition) disc anywhere. Anyone know where I can download a copy? I only see the retail versions on Microsoft and I don't think my key will work with those. ================= There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that...

I need to extract local users off of some Windows Server 2000 boxes for audit purposes. I can get VBscript to work on Server 2003 and 2008 without issues, but not so lucky with a solution for 2000. Anyone have any suggestions? ================= There are 10 kinds of people in this world...

I'm having all kind of issues with this one. I have two sheets in Excel. One has a person's name and a dept number. The other has dept number and a dept name. Crude example is below: Sheet1 Column A Column B Bill 10001 Joe 10002 Bob...

Is it possible to export the Notes field for Groups in A.D.? I'm having problems finding the answer. I'm looking at either doing a VBscript or a DSQuery, but can't find the answer to either. ================= There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and those...

At the risk of being the first person in the history of Tek-Tips to ask a stupid question what is: "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/......" all about in CDO? I'm trying to write a vbscript that will gather some information and then email it out to an appropriate...

I'm relatively new to my current company and have been asked to clean up a lot of the manual processes they have here. The first task is with stale accounts in Active Directory. Currently they run a script to disable anything considered a stale account. They then run another script that also...

I'm having some problems with styles b/c for some reason Office 2007 is like kryptonite to me and I cannot figure out how to do anything in it yet. I'm wanting to create an outline in Word 2007 to lay out some information and notes. I'm using the Multi-level list option, for example: 1...

Can you force the background image to change when the computer locks (i.e. CTRL + ALT + Del and then click Lock Computer button or locks when the screen saver comes on automatically)? ================= There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that do not.

Not sure if this can be done, and I'm not exactly sure how to explain what I want to do in words, but what the heck. I have a DFS structure in place on our data servers. We have a scratch directory that is actually a subdirectory of one of the DFS directories. Is it possible to easily move...

Never done this before, but how could I go about creating an .ics file that would hold all of our holiday (and unfortunately Furlough days) for 2010 in Outlook 2007? I don't see a way to pick random days when setting up a notice. ================= There are 10 kinds of people in this world...

Have a brand new Dell Optiplex 760 that is randomly shutting down 2 or 3 times per day since it was installed. The following error is appearing in the event log: ===================================================== Event ID: 9 Source: iaStor The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond...

I have some manufacturing engineers that have a test device that is supposed to go out on the floor. The problem is that they can't get it to work properly without a logon ID have local admin rights (which is a strict no-no here). I've done some testing myself and it appears the problem lies...