You can give ordinary users NT and WMI administrative rights for routine tasks—to a degree.
- By Chris Brooke
- 05/01/2004
MBSA offers much more than updates to your network.
This script allows logoff and shut down of remote users.
You can use a script to compile log info into a file for closer examination.
- By Chris Brooke
- 04/01/2004
This tool creates scripts for tweaking remote systems.
- By Chris Brooke
- 02/01/2004
Cull unused or deleted accounts using the LDIFDE tool and some scripting trickery.
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/01/2004
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 02/01/2004
Many security-related tasks can be tedious—and, therefore, overlooked. Using these 10 scripts can make your life easier, while simultaneously locking down your network.
First, adopt a method and then take inventory.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 01/01/2004
Help for working through the steps.
- By Chris Brooke
- 01/01/2004
Encoding scripts to prevent unauthorized access.
- By Chris Brooke
- 12/01/2003
UrlScan is an invaluable security tool for Web sites. Although IIS 6.0 incorporates some of its functionality, it’s still useful for IIS 6.0 sites—and critical for older versions of IIS.
- By Martin C. Brown
- 12/01/2003
The trick to creating Exchange 2000 user mailboxes via scripting is in the CDOEXM libraries.
- By Bill Boswell
- 10/21/2003
Provide users with local admin access via this nifty script.
- By Bill Boswell
- 10/15/2003
A reader needs a dynamic, graphical count of network traffic and wants to use scripting to do it. Bill points to a few sources for understanding scripting.
- By Bill Boswell
- 10/07/2003