On more than one occasion I’ve wanted to know if the Windows ISO I have is legitimate or has been corrupted in some way. The only way to know for sure is to hash the file and compare the hash with a known good hash. Fortunately Microsoft has provided those hashes on it’s MSDN site. … Read more
Manipulating the registry is one of the most common tasks a Windows system administrator runs into. It can often become a time consuming task. When you have to change a registry setting on hundreds or even thousands of computers, manipulating a particular key or setting can be next to impossible if you had to do … Read more
I have found, lately, that updating file names for large numbers of files to be tedious and time consuming. Lots of times I’ll find myself going through hundreds of files changing the underscore character to space, or removing some tag. Finding this really annoying and time consuming, I decided to write and share another script … Read more
A few months ago I ran into a bit of a problem. I was programming a front end for web application, and in that web application I wanted to prompt for the users username and password, and then verify that that user was, in fact, a user in the domain. I then wanted to pull … Read more
A while back I wrote an article about VBScript arrays and their various shortcomings entitled “VBScript Array Functions – DeleteFromArray, InArray”. I love these functions because they really simplify the manipulation of arrays and directly address some of the obvious flaws with the initial implementation of arrays in VBScript. At the end of that article, … Read more
I have been working pretty extensively with SQL Server Mirroring in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. It seems to work pretty effectively, though setup outside a domain configuration is convoluted to say the least. I have posted in the past about some problems I have had setting it up. My difficulties with the configuration aspect actually … Read more
I don’t know how many of you out there have had the pleasure of trying to integrate a website into the Google Checkout API but it’s a surprisingly painless process. They have a bunch of sample code that helps to streamline and accelerate the process drastically. Google has this nice control panel where it tells … Read more
VBScript has a infamously weak implementation of array capabilities. There often comes situations where you’d like to manipulate an array and VBScript just doesn’t have the functionality built in natively. One of the things that I need to do frequently is delete a value from an array. Well to do this you have too loop … Read more
Recently I was tasked with synchronizing directories between two different servers. Because files can change, become corrupted or otherwise altered without changing any of their attributes, it was pretty essential to ensure that these files were exactly the same. There are a few utilities out there that can do this for you but one of … Read more
I had been using a simple script to create an alpha numeric password that was all lower case for quite some time. Recently though I decided to give the old password creation function an overhaul since the old password creation function was very weak. This new function will create a new string that is alpha … Read more