Administration
Getting Dell Service Tag using WMI
Need to maintain an accurate inventory of servers in datacenter. Dell servers have a Service Tag that is required when calling Dell support, and it…
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Scripts
Exchange 2003
Scripting: ExchangeClusterResource Class – Reply from Alain Lissoir
The ClusApi.h file, which is part of the PlatformSDK should contain this… typedef enum CLUSTER_RESOURCE_STATE { ClusterResourceStateUnknown = -1, ClusterResourceInherited = 0, ClusterResourceInitializing = 1,…
Exchange 2003
Scripting: ExchangeClusterResource class
The WMI ExchangeClusterResource class has 5 properties: 1) Name: returns name of Exchange cluster resource 2) Type: specifies the cluster resource type (IP Address, network…
Scripts
Track Hotfix/Patch Installation
What’s the best way to track when and which hotfixes/patches were applied? It’s an endless debate amongst IT pros. Some would like to do it…
Scripts
VBScript | SELECT CASE statement
Rather than using too many IF-THEN conditions to check a value and take action, you are better off using the SELECT CASE condition. It produces…
Active Directory
Web-enabling ADSI scripts
With the number of scripts I’ve been writing/accumulating growing exponentially every week, it was time to web-enable stuff so others could also benefit from the…
Active Directory
Import user attributes from OpenLDAP
Recently I imported the employeeID (and a few other attributes) from an OpenLDAP directory into Active Directory. Problem was different distinguishedName attributes in both directories…