Scripting

Script to replace Delprof.exe

July 30, 2008

Joe Shonk has written a very nice Delete Profiles Script to replace the lack of flexibility found in the DELPROF.exe tool. I’ve used it for my latest XenApp rollout, and have found that it works really well 🙂 See below for further information as to how I have implemented it. Warren Simondson of Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy […]

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Script to remove printers

July 30, 2008

I wrote this script to help a customer cleanup user profiles and remove unsupported printers. This script can safely be executed in each user session and works a treat. It stamps the registry after the first time it runs, so that it can be left in place to capture all users, whilst only ever removing the […]

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Script to remove orphaned/stale printer objects

July 29, 2008

I wrote this script to help a customer clean up old orphaned and stale printer objects from user profiles. This script can safely be executed in each user session and works a treat. However, you may first want to try my script to remove printers the traditional way. Here is the RemoveOrphanedPrinters.vbs script.

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Creating a Message of the Day banner using a HTA

December 28, 2007

A customer asked me to assist with implementing a “Message of the Day” (MOTD) banner into their logon scripts. I had written one years ago that was part of a kix32 script, but found that it no longer worked with the wkix32 script processor. I guess that I could have debugged it and fixed it […]

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