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.
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
Help for working through the steps.
- By Chris Brooke
- 01/01/2004
First, adopt a method and then take inventory.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 01/01/2004
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
Encoding scripts to prevent unauthorized access.
- By Chris Brooke
- 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
Profile Maker 8 allows for incredibly simple control over your enterprise desktops.
- By Matthew A. Kinsey
- 09/01/2003
See how three scripts allow for dealing with restore points remotely.
- By Chris Brooke
- 09/01/2003
This month, Chris takes you through a handy script that discovers and enumerates what networking protocols are installed on a host.
- By Chris Brooke
- 08/01/2003
It is handy to be able to just look up at the My Computer icon and see where you are and what name you are using.
- By Chris Brooke
- 07/01/2003
Changing the registry is a scary concept, but WMI makes it simple.
- By Chris Brooke
- 06/01/2003