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Objective: Notify user of system reboot in 30 minutes & 'schedule' reboot via `shutdown -t XX`. If the system is still up 30 minutes later, issue 'shutdown(6)' via: Win32_OperatingSystem History: I've got a scheduled task that runs as a different user (call it user X) with elevated privileges...

Outside of creating a chromeless window via HTABox, I'm curious to know if there's a way in vbscript to display a pop-up that doesn't stall the entire script. Both msgbox and popup stall the script until either a user intervenes, or, in the case of popup only, the timeout occurs.

In Short: Why doesn't RemoteShutdown work for a local user on a local workstation? Why must one use Shutdown instead? While testing a reboot function within a script as a user with local admin rights on the machine in question, I kept getting '-2147217310/80041062 Privilege not held' errors...

I've written a script that runs via a Scheduled Task under a user account that has full local admin privileges on all workstations and sufficient access in AD. When I initially tested the script, I ran it as a normal user account that also had full local admin privileges but very limited AD...

I periodically run into an issue where the date [format] I'm using in my VBScripts (typically MM/DD/YYYY) don't behave as expected on various machines. Upon further inspection it has to do with the local regional settings on said machine. What's the best method for ensuring that my dates are...

A few years ago when I started in my current position I got bit by the regional settings bug: I was coding for MM/DD/YYYY format but our friends in the UK and Brussels were using DD/MM/YYYY format. I found my mistake and corrected it, yay..., so now it looks like this: If (Now() >...

I've got a Compaq SCSI backplane (part #141282-002 / sp # 263035-001) as seen in the image. Can anyone tell me what kind of power port that is and/or what type of adapter one would need to power it up?

Every now and again I run into some coding error and although Err.Number reveals a number, Err.Description is blank. For instance, on my machine while trying to add two printers via VBScript it failed with error code -2147023095. Although the description was blank, a quick search revealed that...

I'm having a really difficult time wrapping my head around what is probably a very easy concept. I've got an Excel file that contains 4 colums and 4 rows, the first being a header row. (In reality the columns will remain the same but the rows will grow.) The objective is to poll machines for...

The BartPE environment we use doesn't support WMI and I've not been successful in implementing a WMI plugin that works. As such, I need assistance in locating an application that will allow me to query the BIOS for certain types of information. Specifcally, I'd like to pull the...

Good evening all. I hate to bother everyone but I'm running into some problems with a VB script I've created to add a user to AD. I'm fairly new to VBScripting and am open to criticism, constructive of otherwise. Higher up in the script, strLName, strFName, strLoginID, strEndDate & strPasswd...

Hey Everyone, Let me start off by saying I'm no network engineer or Cisco certified anything! I apologize if this question was raised & answered once before in another form/thread or just happens to be a known issue and its not possible. Please bear with me. I manage a help desk of about 9...

I just finished performing a vulnerability assessment scan on a clients Win 2003 3790 server running IIS 6.0. Using our tool (and others) port 4531 came up several times, each time with a different issue. First: Possible Backdoor iise.exe - //admin.dll Second: Web server tries to hide its...

I have a number of questions regarding improving security on our Cisco 7140's and 2561's. I've been working with another coworker here and we haven't really been able to find the information we're looking for. Based on our research (or mostly her as I was assigned to this at the tail end of...