March 21, 2008 5:39 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
360voice,
DataManagement,
Development,
Microsoft.XMLDOM,
VBScript,
XMLYou may recall we recently worked with a cool little script that itself didn't have anything to do with systems administration, the 360voice API...
March 20, 2008 6:26 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
DataManagement,
Development,
Functions,
Subroutines,
VBScriptI just realized in my haste to get out a piece of code celebrating the XBOX 360 contest, I negected to give a proper answer for our discussion on subroutines and functions in a vbscript.
In this installment, we'll explain how to build a function and a subroutine a bit better. First, remember...
March 14, 2008 5:57 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
360voice,
DataManagement,
Microsoft.XMLDOM,
VBScript,
XMLIn this installment I wanted to both celebrate and congratulate the winners of the ITKE Challenge that has been running over the last few months for an XBOX 360 ELITE system, among other prizes. I also wanted to write about XML use in vbscript as well so...
March 12, 2008 5:38 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
Development,
Error control,
Variable Types,
VBScript,
VBScript StatementsAs an answer to the extra credit portion of my posting a few days ago:
DIM in a script declares a variable to be used. It just simply creates the variable, nothing more. By default, vbscript will create variables on the fly for you as you use them...
March 10, 2008 3:33 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
Development,
Functions,
Subroutines,
VBScriptIn this installment, we'll discuss the advantages of using Subroutines and Functions in your script rather than using a all-in-one script that runs from start to finish. I'll only give a breif over veiw of subroutines and function, but more information on them can be found in the
March 4, 2008 1:57 AM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
DataCenter,
Development,
VBScript,
Windows Management Interface,
WMIIn 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...
March 3, 2008 9:11 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
Development,
Networking,
Objects,
SQL,
VBScript,
VBScript StatementsIn my last blog entry I explained error control via on error resume next and on error goto 0, there are other ways as well-- but for now this should work to get us by.
Next well discuss the Set, GetObject, ExecQuery,...
February 29, 2008 10:30 PM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
Development,
Error control,
VBScript,
Windows Management Interface
In my last installment,
February 29, 2008 2:45 AM
Posted by: Jerry Lees
Development,
Error control,
Networking,
Printer Administration,
Printers,
VBScript,
Windows Management InterfaceRecently, 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...
