Archive for category Scripts

Reset a Local Account Password With VBS

Today I added a bunch of old computers with different local admin account passwords to our domain.  So, since I am all for doing things the easy way I came up with a quick script.  I added the computers that I needed the admin account reset on to an active directory OU and applied this script.
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Curling: Installing Adobe Reader With cURL

Don’t worry, you wont need a broom for this.  cURL is a free opensoure, crossplatform, tiny application used for file transfer over urls, and browser emulation form command line.  It is avaliable here http://curl.haxx.se/ .  I happened across this while back while looking for a way to remotely download files from microsoft without user intervention and this has proved to be very useful.  So heres how it works to do a basic download. In this example we are downloading Adobe Reader 9 from adobe.com.
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