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at work, i made up a vbs file that serves as our login script. it basically just maps various network drives. some are defaulot for everybody, and others are decided by simple if/then statements based ...

I'm attempting to automate a process at my job where we import data into an Access Database, run a series of queries to modify the data, then export the modified data. What I'm attempting to do is ...

As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

There are several ways to create user accounts in Active Directory. If you have a single account to create, you can input the user data manually because that will probably be the quickest way. You can ...

Do your users like to tinker with scripts? Keep yours out of harm's way by using Microsoft's Script Encoder. Greg Shultz shows you how to use the Encoder for basic script protection. If you’ve been ...

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins include a patch for a JScript and VBScript scripting engine vulnerability being publicly exploited. Microsoft released a hefty load of security bulletins ...

Visual Basic.NET is getting comfortable in its new position as a top five programming language in the TIOBE index, which measures popularity based on search engine data. After hitting a high in the ...

I first learned about the C# compiler as a service workings way back in 2008 at PDC. At that time, Anders Hejlsberg gave a brief preview of what was to come by showing off a C# ...