Brian Desmond's Blog : Scripts

Updated Error Code Lookup Tool

Brian Desmond's Blog — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:19:00 GMT

The Microsoft error code lookup tool (which no Windows admin should be without) got updated today: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=be596899-7bb8-4208-b7fc-09e02a13696c&displaylang=en&tm . While it says it's for Exchange...(read more)

Getting Total Installed Memory with WMI

Brian Desmond's Blog — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:24:00 GMT

Getting the amount of memory installed in a machine with WMI is a bit confusing particuarly if you only read the docs partially. I was initially using Win32_ComputerSystem::TotalPhysicalMemory, but the documentation warns "Be aware that, under some...(read more)

Script to Reset Local Administrator Passwords

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sat, 05 May 2007 16:11:00 GMT

I realized I hadn't posted this one answering a newsgroup post this morning. The attached script will iterate through a list of workstation names in a text file, ping them, and if the ping returns then reset the local administrator account password...(read more)

Script to Collect Local Administrators Membership from List of Machines

Brian Desmond's Blog — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:30:00 GMT

Another script I wrote the other day, this one will take an input file called workstations.txt and produce a CSV which is easy to view in Excel and look at the local administrators group membership for the list of machines. The script could easily be...(read more)

Script to Collect Basic Inventory Data From Machines

Brian Desmond's Blog — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:25:00 GMT

This is another useful script I sometimes use when I need to collect some basic inventory data from a list of machines. The attached vbscript takes an input file called workstations.txt and produces an comma separated output file called workstationinventory...(read more)

Script to Create Home Folders for OU

Brian Desmond's Blog — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:14:00 GMT

I thought I'd share the script attached at the end of this post as it's something I've seen requests for below. The script will take all of the users in a given OU (or really any subtree), and create a home folder for them and stamp the path...(read more)

SecureCRT Script for Mass Changing Cisco Switch/Router Passwords

Brian Desmond's Blog — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:41:00 GMT

Attached to this post is a simple script which connects over either Telnet or SSH to a list of devices and resets the enable password, local password for the vty lines, and the console password. The script will login either with a username/password pair...(read more)

Script to Dump Exchange Mailbox Info to Spreadsheet (CSV)

Brian Desmond's Blog — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:40:00 GMT

I found another useful script I wrote last year on my hard drive this evening. It's attached at the bottom of this post. This script will dump quite a bit of useful information about each mailbox on a particular server or set of servers to a CSV file...(read more)

Nagios NSClient Agent Rollout Script

Brian Desmond's Blog — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:21:00 GMT

I'm a big fan of Nagios as a monitoring solution in environemnts large and small. The price can't be beat and the community around it is pretty good too. I have a zip attached to this post which contains a script I wrote to deploy the nsclient...(read more)