Bart’s Blog

Windows Powershell delivers a shell environment where you can use a bunch of different objects (WMI, COM, .NET framework) and their methods and properties from a command prompt. The shell provides strong output formatting and redirection. Finally you won’t have to switch to Perl anymore to make use of stuff like regular expressions. As a [...]

The windows task scheduler. Often underappreciated for basic task scheduling. I do use it myself, on my webserver, to schedule my daily backups and collect webstatistics… every 15 minutes. Go have a look under the ‘advanced’ button of a scheduled task. You’d be surprised…

Some code snippets for working with environment system variables:

If you want to query AD in your script you can use the advanced query strings from the W2K3 “Active Directory users and computers” MMC. Below is a script I used to query all locked out accounts in a domain: Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") objConnection.Open "Provider=ADsDSOObject;" Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command") objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection objCommand.CommandText = [...]