CSI-Windows Debugging Checklist Mousepad for Previous Students of DesktopEngineer.com Wednesday, March 31 2010 @ 02:22 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy If you've ever taken a class from DesktopEngineer.com or CSI-Windows.com and did not receive one of our cool Debugging Checklist mousepads, drop us a line to get yours. See below for a graphic of what it looks like. read more FREE: Speed Up Windows with DesktopEngineer.com's WinServicesTuner.vbs Wednesday, November 5 2008 @ 10:15 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy I wanted an automated way to optimize the services running on my training VMs and real machines as well, but every script I checked out was unsatisfactory - so you know what means ... read more New Post Categories App Mgmt and Vista Thursday, June 19 2008 @ 02:27 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy We have two new post categories that are linked on the home page - "Application Management" and "Vista"... read more RELEASED: PowerShell Scriptomatic Monday, May 26 2008 @ 02:16 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy A PowerShell version of Scriptomatic has been released ... read more RELEASED: Admin Script Editor 3.1 Tuesday, November 27 2007 @ 11:04 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Admin Script Editor has been on a steady path of upgrades and enhancements.  If you haven't had a chance to check out the latest features ... read more RELEASED and FREE: SpecOps Command Monday, November 26 2007 @ 05:32 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy PowerShell is the next big thing in Microsoft scripting - but how are you going to get it installed, and what about the prerequisites you need to deploy for your latest script ... read more RELEASED: wmidiag.vbs Version 2 Monday, February 5 2007 @ 02:44 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy WMIDiag is a VBScript from Microsoft that runs a complete diagnosis of the health of WMI on a computer... read more New Training Dates for PowerShell and Windows Installer Thursday, February 1 2007 @ 04:11 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy New training dates for PowerShell For Administrators, Windows Installer Packaging and Windows Installer Scripting and Custom Actions. PowerShell for Administrators DesktopEngineer.com's PowerShell for Administrators will help you unravel this new technology and learn how it is different and why it is truly powerful.  Classes in March and May. read more PowerShell Training In March Thursday, January 11 2007 @ 01:16 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy DesktopEngineer.com has scheduled a new session of Windows PowerShell Training... read more PowerGadgets - Cool Visual Status Widgets for PowerShell Tuesday, December 5 2006 @ 04:58 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy PowerGadgets allow you to pipe the output of a PowerShell CmdLet into a visual gauge, dial or other control ... read more PoweShell 1.0 Released Thursday, November 16 2006 @ 12:19 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy It's Official, PowerShell 1.0 is now released ... read more PowerShell Webinar's by Microsoft Thursday, October 19 2006 @ 09:15 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft is holding a week of webinars in early November to get you up to speed on PowerShell ... read more Windows PowerShell RC2 is Available! Thursday, September 28 2006 @ 09:28 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy RC2 of PowerShell moves it one more step closer to the proposed final release in the fourth quarter ... read more Take DesktopEngineer.com's Scripting Training Needs Survey Tuesday, May 9 2006 @ 12:30 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy DesktopEngineer.com has put out a Scripting Training Needs Survey to assess your training needs for PowerShell... read more PowerShell Prompt Here and PowerShell Resource Page Monday, May 1 2006 @ 10:18 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The "Command Prompt Here" sure is handy - now there is a version for the PowerShell community ... read more Monad Becomes "Microsoft PowerShell" (RC1 Release) Wednesday, April 26 2006 @ 06:41 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft has released RC1 of the shell formerly called Monad, formerly called Microsoft Shell ... read more Two MSH/Monad Webcasts by Microsoft Monday, April 17 2006 @ 04:30 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Late last year Microsoft did a couple webcasts on their new shell scripting environment... read more BOOK: Visual Basic Express 2005 Friday, April 14 2006 @ 09:27 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft is making a new market play with the new free "Express" versions of their popular programming languages and development environment.  This book can be helpful to administrators who find themselves in need of creating full blown Windows executables... This book does not assume any programming background.  It has a good layout which takes the learner through practical examples throughout.  It leads the learner through the UI of the tool, then how to build a UI for an application, through programming logic (VB Style) and finally into connecting to external data sources.  Like most books on programming in Visual Basic, the overall focus is on building graphical business applications which allow end users to access and edit databases.  Many admins are in search of system programming in VB - but books that cover VB and Sytem programming are rare. read more FREE: WMI Health Diagnosis Utility Wednesday, March 15 2006 @ 08:14 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy WMIDiag is a VBScript from Microsoft that runs a complete diagnosis of the health of WMI on a computer... read more Monad Beta 3 Released Monday, January 23 2006 @ 03:50 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Beta 3 of Monad has been released... read more Monad portal at Microsoft Script Center Tuesday, December 13 2005 @ 02:22 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The scripting guys have opened the doors on their new portal for Monad.  Lots of good stuff here... read more FREE: SetACL - permissions from command lines, scripts and MSI custom actions. Thursday, December 8 2005 @ 12:10 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy SetACL is an open source project utility which allows advanced permissions settings for Windows from the command line, a script or... read more New Virtual Machine Blog Cateogory and RSS Feed Thursday, November 10 2005 @ 01:39 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy We have added a new category and RSS feed to DesktopEngineer.com for news about Virtual Machines... read more Monad / MSH Sample Scripts Tuesday, November 8 2005 @ 09:29 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft has provided some samples scripts for MHS on the resource kit site... read more Monad Architect Talks About Shell Scripting Futures Wednesday, October 26 2005 @ 02:42 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Jeffery Snover designed WMIC, then he kicked the whole idea into overdrive and architected Monad (or Microsoft Shell - MSH).  In this Oct 18th video clip he talks about what led... read more Monad Documentation Pack Saturday, October 8 2005 @ 07:59 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy This documentation pack includes and 80 page getting started guide, a trifold quick reference and three hands on labs from the Professional Developers Conference (PDC). read more Microsoft's Monad: Nuclear Arsenal for Shell Scripting Tuesday, September 27 2005 @ 10:35 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The advent of .NET and the almost simultaneous halting of Windows Scripting Host updates made me thing Microsoft had lost it's vision on scripting.  And although the very rich Monad scripting / command shell environment has a stated goal of edging you closer to native .NET programming, I'm still glad scripting on Microsoft platforms is being enhanced... read more FREE: Regular Expression Tester Friday, September 16 2005 @ 10:32 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Regular expressions are extremely powerful method of manipulating and reporting on unstructured text such as log files.  VBScript does a respectable job of implementing them... read more FREE: HTA Helpomatic: Helps you write HTML Applications Saturday, April 16 2005 @ 08:45 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy An HTA is on of the best ways to add a high-function user interface to VBScripts. Also, they are not subject to many of the limitations that browser based applications are. read more FREE: SMS 2003 Scripting Guide from Microsoft Saturday, April 2 2005 @ 10:01 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft has published a guide to scripting SMS using VBScript and WMI. It is cross referenced (Cross linked) to the SMS SDK, WMI SDK and the Windows 2000 Scripting Guide... read more Relased: Maintenance Release of Windows Scripting Host (WSH) Wednesday, February 16 2005 @ 08:47 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy You can download the version of WSH that comes with XP SP2. The build is 5.6.8825. read more NEW: WMI Scriptomatic 2.0 Released Thursday, January 20 2005 @ 07:56 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The scripting guys have released 2.0 of their famous WMI Scriptomatic. Some very cool new features here, including... read more Do-it-yourself Script Center Wednesday, December 15 2004 @ 09:39 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft's Scripting Guys have been maintaining a massive repository of sample scripts for quite some time. Now they are making the code available to generate your own script repository. read more Sophisticated and Useful VBScript Samples Wednesday, December 8 2004 @ 12:50 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Bill Jame's site has great VBScript samples. Some of them extend the shell and some have built-in install and uninstall routines. read more Great WMI Sample Code Site Wednesday, July 28 2004 @ 07:47 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy This site has great sample code for hundreds of WMI Classes. It gives a one liner description and then... read more INF Device Driver Language Demystified Friday, February 13 2004 @ 07:37 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Ever have to hack a device driver INF file to get it to play nicely with an automated workstation build? This is one of the least documented parts of Windows. Now you can visit this Microsoft published reference. read more Windows Script Repository in Help Format Thursday, February 12 2004 @ 10:59 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft has publish the script samples used at their scripting center in a help file format. This is very handy when you are searching for sample code on how to utilize a specific object or call in VBScript. read more UPDATED to 3.0: VPN & RAS Logon Hook (9x/ME/W2K/XP) Friday, October 3 2003 @ 03:21 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy In the good old days when every computer was hardwired to the network, processing the logon script only when a user first logged on to the computer made sense. Today remote connections are made through VPN and RAS and Windows 2000 has the capability to be dynamically plugged into the network - In all these cases the logon script does not run. This WMI script will ensure that the logon script runs for all of these dynamic connection scenarios. Read on for Version 2.9 Updates and Fixes read more FREE: Bunch of Excellent VBScript Samples and Components Friday, September 12 2003 @ 03:55 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Joe's Ware has a bunch of excellent VBScript sample code and components. Much of it is written as VBScript classes, which are quite easy to snap into your scripts. read more FREE: ADSI Scriptomatic Script Writing Tool Thursday, May 22 2003 @ 09:26 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Not too long ago the scripting folks at Microsoft created WMI Script-O-Matic which generates a simple VBScript for displaying data from any WMI Class. Here is the ADSI version! read more FREE: .NET Scripting Host Friday, April 4 2003 @ 01:45 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy At one time .NET was promoted as the new environment for administrator script development. However, .NET is a compiled code environment - enter this free scripting host. read more Microsoft Webcast: What’s New in Scripting for Windows 2003? (4/23/03 @ 10:30 am PST) Friday, April 4 2003 @ 08:06 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy There have been some nice enhancements in scripting for Windows 2003! A very good sign, since it seemed for a while that scripting may take a dive to the emphasis on .NET read more wshwizard - HTML Application Template to be used as a VBScript Interface Thursday, March 27 2003 @ 06:35 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Have you ever needed a rich interface for a WSH script? Most available options require the deployment of at least one custom control - not this one. read more IsLaptop-WSH-MSICA: Flexible, configurable laptop detection Thursday, March 13 2003 @ 10:24 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy This script uses 5 different WMI classes to attempt to determine if the machine it is running on is a laptop. You can customize it to ensure that it is getting all the laptops for your organization. read more MS CHAT: Administering Windows 2000 with Scripts (02/27/03 @ 2:30 pm PST) Wednesday, February 19 2003 @ 11:03 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Experienced and novice scripters should find some interesting tid-bits at this Microsoft Chat. read more MS Scripting Clinic: WMI Scripting Primer Part 3 Wednesday, February 19 2003 @ 10:51 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Microsoft Scripting Clinic has been running a WMI Primer - Part 3 has been posted. read more FREE: WSH Dialog Builder Friday, February 14 2003 @ 08:21 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Are you tired of simplistic dialog boxes available in WSH? This ActiveX control gives you many new options in one DLL - it is well done and well documented. read more BOOK: Developing WMI Solutions Friday, December 6 2002 @ 08:58 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Although this book is primarily intended for developers, it includes good information on how to decide where to put custom classes. This is also one section on WMIC scripting. read more BOOK: Managing Enterprise Systems with the Windows Script Host Wednesday, October 2 2002 @ 12:42 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy This book is a good, solutions oriented scripting book with lots of source code. read more Microsoft WMI Scripting Tutorial Friday, August 30 2002 @ 10:13 AM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy The folks over at the Microsoft Scripting Center have done it again. A multi-part series on how to script with WMI from the ground up. read more