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April 13, 2009  3:18 PM

Finding the owner of a process remotely with VBScript via the Win32_process class



Posted by: Jerry Lees
Administration tools, Functions, System Administration, Systems Administration, VBScript, VBScript Functions, win32_process, Windows Management Interface, WMI

 Recently I had an issue where I needed to find the user running a series of processes on a large number of servers. Initially, it was a long process of logging onto each server then opening task manager and sorting by process name. After about 5 servers, I realized it was going to take hours to...

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January 5, 2009  2:03 AM

Retrieve environment variable values from a remote system with WMI



Posted by: Jerry Lees
Environment Variables, PATH variable, Remote management, System Administration, VBScript, Win32_Environment, Windows Management Interface, WMI

Back in October I shared with you a way to retrieve environment variables with a script titled

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January 2, 2009  3:01 AM

Searching the Windows Eventlog for specific events with WMI



Posted by: Jerry Lees
Systems Administration, systems management, VBScript, Win32_NTLogEvent, Windows Management Interface, WMI

On occasion as a systems administrator you have to find the proverbial needle in the haystack with respect to the events in the event logs. You know what I mean, the one event you care about and need to know when it occured as part of your troubleshooting... then throw in that you need to do it in...

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March 4, 2008  1:57 AM

Determining properties and methods used in a WMI object for use in a vbscript.



Posted by: Jerry Lees
DataCenter, Development, VBScript, Windows Management Interface, WMI

In this entry we'll take a look at the microsoft documentation for win32_printerdriver and determine how we can determine what values to use to get data once we've created a script to get set of data back from a WMI object...

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February 29, 2008  10:30 PM

Using error control in a vbscript to recover from odd errors



Posted by: Jerry Lees
Development, Error control, VBScript, Windows Management Interface

In my last installment,

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February 29, 2008  2:45 AM

Finding HP Printers using PCL6 Drivers with WMI



Posted by: Jerry Lees
Development, Error control, Networking, Printer Administration, Printers, VBScript, Windows Management Interface

Recently, at my work we had a situation where users were reporting the printer was not printing their documents and/or it was printing very slowly. After digging into the problem, I found: 1. the documents were spooling just fine to the printer 2. the documents were not hanging in the...

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