Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
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Alistair G. Lowe-Norris is a consultant specializing in Microsoft technologies. He is an MCSE, an MCP+Internet, and the author of Active Directory , 2nd edition (O’Reilly & Associates), which is published in four languages.
Email address: alistair@windowsitpro.com
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90 results found for Alistair G. Lowe-Norris, displaying items 1 - 20
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Use Scripts to Automate Windows Utilities
Use scripts to automate and improve your control over Windows utilities, such as NTBackup and Dfscmd.
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Enhancing BackXP.vbs
Use scripts to automate and improve your control over Windows utilities, such as NTBackup and Dfscmd.
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February 12, 2004 |
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How to Raise and Trap Events
Raising and trapping events in scripts is useful. Here’s what you need to know to get started.
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December 8, 2003 |
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Gain Functionality with Controls
Here’s how you can use three ActiveX COM components—DSOleFile, ScriptPW, and WaitFor—in your scripts.
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December 8, 2003 |
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How to Examine Components with Word’s Object Browser
Here’s an example of how to add and explore a component in Word’s Object Browser.
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November 3, 2003 |
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Scripting Group Policy Permissions
Learn more about the GPMC and how to use it to automate the creation and application of permissions to GPOs, SOMs, and WMI filters.
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November 3, 2003 |
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WMI Filters
WMI filters let you retrieve useful information that you can then use in your GPMC scripts.
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October 6, 2003 |
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Scripting Group Policy Searches
Find out how you can use the GPMC’s COM objects to automate some simple and some complex policy-based searches.
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September 8, 2003 |
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Scripting Group Policy Objects
Microsoft adds some new tricks to Windows 2003 that let you automate the process of configuring GPOs to perform policy-based tasks.
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August 11, 2003 |
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Printing from Scripts
Do you typically want to print the results that a script generates? Learn how to have the script do the printing for you.
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July 9, 2003 |
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The Scripting Dictionary Makes It Easy
One of two key objects in the Microsoft Scripting Runtime Library, a Dictionary object stores data items similar to the way an array does, but its data-item indices don't have to be integers.
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April 7, 2003 |
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AD and WMI Reporting
Don't settle for simply extracting information from AD or WMI. Use Csvde, the Scriptomatic, and Excel to create clear and easy-to-read reports.
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April 7, 2003 |
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Formatting the Reports
Learn how to determine which code to use to automate Excel from within VBScript.
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January 9, 2003 |
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Scripting a Corporate Update System, Part 4
This final installment in the series provides information about securing the corporate update system and advice about using it to its full potential over time.
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November 5, 2002 |
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Scripting a Corporate Update System, Part 3
Learn how you can automate the client-side installation process so that you can manage your clients as part of the corporate update system.
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October 8, 2002 |
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Scripting a Corporate Update System, Part 2
Discover how to create client-side scripts to search for updates in a central script repository.
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September 10, 2002 |
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Scripting a Corporate Update System
Learn how to use scripts to build a large, complex enterprise solution.
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August 13, 2002 |
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Scripting Solutions with WSH and COM: More Short, Sharp Scripts
These scripts help you kill processes, use recursion to list every subfolder in a directory, find all the printers and drives on a network, find SQL Server systems, and start or stop an FTP site.
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July 11, 2002 |
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Scripting Solutions with WSH and COM: Enhancing Your GUI with GooeyScript
Alistair G. Lowe-Norris offers a continuing look at an ActiveX control you can use with WSH that simplifies the task of adding buttons, custom backgrounds, progress bars, and other elements to your event-driven forms.
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June 11, 2002 |
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Scripting Solutions with WSH and COM: Extending WSH with ActiveX Controls
Discover an ActiveX control you can use with WSH to make creating forms a snap.
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