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Showing results for December 2008 - Page 2 of 2 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Dec 2, 2008

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Easily Reconfigure Services?

ScriptingGuy1

I have a problem. The pointy-headed boss (PHB) loves to play with his laptop. The problem is he does not know anything. He routinely hoses his computer, and then expects me to drop everything and come fix it. I am not making this up; we had an Exchange server crash one time, he knew we were trying to get the thing back up, and he comes into the s...

Dec 1, 2008

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Have Computer Configuration Information Written to an HTML File?

ScriptingGuy1

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to obtain some basic configuration information from my computers on the network. It would be nice if the script would write the output in an HTML file that we could copy to our internal Web server. This would give us easy access to the information. Whadda ya say?- JE Hi JE, This morning, it is really cold, gray, and yu...