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Scripts

Get started with Windows Powershell

June 11, 2010
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I have been avoiding it for a long time. I know batch files, and VB script so well that I am not in the mood to learn a totally different scripting language. As each day passes Microsoft is slowly phasing out their support for VB Script. Eventually Power Shell will be the only way to [...]

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Email Notifications for your FTP Script

May 7, 2010
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Last week I wrote how to FTP the contents of a folder by just using a batch file. We had a few good suggestions on how to improve that script. Listening to those suggestions, I have come up with this updated version: @echo off rem =============================== rem = FTP Script Made by = rem = [...]

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Date and time stamp in your batch files

November 11, 2009
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Update 11-12-2009: Looks like I made a typo. The date should be extracted with this line: %date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2% I have updated the article below, and thanks to Jim.G for noticing it! There has been some activity recently in an old 2007 post I wrote about creating a date and time stamp in your batch files. Well, [...]

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Network Administrator 3.0 Beta

September 2, 2009

Purchase Network Administrator 2.9 for only $99 per administrator (50% off since you are a reader of my blog), and when it is released you will receive 3.0 Free. Just follow this special link We have been hard at work building a new version of Network Administrator, and have been taking many suggestions from you. [...]

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Write a script to find and delete a file

June 17, 2009

I distributed a test version of Remote Control 4.0 across our network last week, and since it was a special debug version, it created a large number of files named debuglog.dat. I wanted an easy way to find and delete these using a batch file. I researched and was able to take parts of other [...]

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