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Change Outlook 2003 Free Busy Update Information
Here’s a small batch that changes Outlook Free Busy Information in your local Registry.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 | @ECHO OFF SET FBPublishRange=%1 SET FBUpdateSecs=%2 IF NOT DEFINED FBPublishRange ( SET FBPublishRange=6 ) IF %FBPublishRange% LSS 1 ( GOTO :HELP) IF %FBPublishRange% GTR 12 ( GOTO :HELP) IF NOT DEFINED FBUpdateSecs ( SET FBUpdateSecs=1800 ) IF %FBUpdateSecs% LSS 1800 ( GOTO :HELP) IF %FBUpdateSecs% GTR 7200 ( GOTO :HELP) ECHO Updating Outlook Free Busy Options ECHO Updating FBPublishRange using value %FBPublishRange% reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Preferences /t REG_DWORD /v FBPublishRange /d %FBPublishRange% /f>NUL ECHO Updating FBUpdateSecs using value %FBUpdateSecs% reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Preferences /t REG_DWORD /v FBUpdateSecs /d %FBUpdateSecs% /f>NUL IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 ( ECHO Update Completed Successfully GOTO :EOF ) ELSE ( ECHO There was an error updating Outlook Free Busy Options. Return Value: %ERRORLEVEL% GOTO :EOF ) :HELP ECHO. ECHO Invalid Arguments Found ECHO ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ECHO. ECHO Allows 2 optional arguments: [FBPublishRange] and [FBUpdateSecs] ECHO. ECHO Argument 1 specifies the number of months to publish Free/Busy information ECHO Valid values for argument 1 (FBPublishRange): 1 to 12 ECHO. ECHO Argument 2 specifies the update interval to publish Free/Busy information ECHO Valid values for argument 2 (FBUpdateSecs): 1800 to 7200 ECHO. ECHO Examples: ECHO. ECHO "UpdateOutlookFreeBusy.cmd" Uses default values ECHO -FBPublishRange = 6, FBUpdateSecs = 1800 ECHO. ECHO "UpdateOutlookFreeBusy.cmd 9" ECHO -FBPublishRange = 9, FBUpdateSecs = 1800 ECHO. ECHO "UpdateOutlookFreeBusy.cmd 9 2400" ECHO -FBPublishRange = 9, FBUpdateSecs = 2400 GOTO :EOF :EOF |
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Create a Share Remotely using the WMI Command-Line Tool
To manage Windows remotely through the command line interface, you can can use wmic (comes with windows).
Here’s the syntax to create a Windows File Share on a remote machine using a single line of code. With Windows NT some might remember rmtshare.exe which did the same thing, but crashes with more recent versions of Windows.
wmic /node:%REMOTESERVER% share call create “”, “%DESCRIPTION%”,”%MAX CONNECTIONS (LEAVE BLANK FOR UNLTD)%”, “%SHARENAME%”,”" , “%LOCAL PATH TO FOLDER%”, 0
Example:
wmic /node:SERVER1 share call create "", "User Homedrive for microtom","", "microtom$","" , "D:\Shares\Users\microtom", 0
You can find more information on WMIC here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx
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Recursively delete Subdirectories from a command prompt
Some might have noticed that the “del” command will only remove files in a directory and it’s subdirectories.
If you want to delete Subdirectories from a given starting directory (without deleting the root directory itself) you might want to parse through the root folder and delete every directory that is found.
Here’s a small for loop which does the trick.
In this example, all folders within the %temp% folder that start with “OL” would be deleted (Since that is what the “dir” command would return). You might want to modify the path and the wild card to suit your requirements.
In a command line:
for /f %i in ('dir %temp%\OL* /B /D') do rd %i /Q /S
In a batch file:
for /f %%i in ('dir %temp%\OL* /B /D') do rd %%i /Q /S
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Terminate and disable RDP Sessions for a specific time frame
Here’s a small batch that terminates open RDP sessions on a Windows 2003 Server and disables RDP logons during the time the script runs.
Don’t ask, I recently had a funny case where I needed to schedule this to run daily. (I used the Windows Task Scheduler)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | IF NOT DEFINED DEBUG @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL SET strMessage="Some user notification text" ::Notify Users MSG * /SERVER:%COMPUTERNAME% /TIME:900 %strMessage% ::Disable Logon CHANGE LOGON /DISABLE ::Wait 15 Minutes SLEEP 900 ::Teach them the hard way FOR /L %%i in (1,1,10) DO ( LOGOFF %%i /SERVER:%COMPUTERNAME% ) ::Do some important stuff here ::Enable Logons again CHANGE LOGON /ENABLE |
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Multiping Machines with a Batch
Here’s a quick and easy way to ping multiple computers using a batch file (actually 2 batch files).
You could actually use a one liner, but this one is a bit more fancy and much quicker as it runs the pings in parallel.
Copy paste the code below into the corresponting file (both must be in the same directory) and run whatsup.cmd assets.txt
File: whatsup.cmd
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 | if not defined debug @echo OFF set ok=0 set nok=0 set count=0 cls echo. echo Pinging all adapters echo. set inputfile=%1 for /f %%i in (%inputfile%) do ( set /A count=count+1 start /B %~dp0\whatsuploop.cmd "%%i" ) echo %count% Pings running :wait_to_complete sleep 3 set missing=0 for /f %%i in (%inputfile%) do ( if exist %temp%\%%i.ok set /A missing=missing+1 if exist %temp%\%%i.false set /A missing=missing+1 ) echo %missing% Pings complete of %count% if not %missing%==%count% goto :wait_to_complete if exist %temp%\WHATSDOWN.txt del /Q TMP\WHATSDOWN.txt if exist %temp%\WHATSUP.txt del /Q TMP\WHATSUP.txt echo. echo ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ echo Details: echo. for /f %%i in (%inputfile%) do ( if exist %temp%\%%i.ok set /A ok=ok+1&&echo [RUNNING] %%i>>%temp%\WHATSUP.txt if exist %temp%\%%i.ok del %temp%\%%i.ok if exist %temp%\%%i.false set /A nok=nok+1&&echo [STOPPED] %%i>>%temp%\WHATSDOWN.txt if exist %temp%\%%i.false del %temp%\%%i.false ) if exist %temp%\WHATSDOWN.txt type %temp%\WHATSDOWN.txt if exist %temp%\WHATSUP.txt type %temp%\WHATSUP.txt if exist %temp%\WHATSDOWN.txt type %temp%\WHATSDOWN.txt>WHATSDOWN.txt if exist %temp%\WHATSUP.txt type %temp%\WHATSUP.txt>WHATSUP.txt if exist %temp%\WHATSDOWN.txt del /Q %temp%\WHATSDOWN.txt if exist %temp%\WHATSUP.txt del /Q %temp%\WHATSUP.txt echo. echo ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ echo Summary: echo. echo [RUNNING] %ok% echo [STOPPED] %nok% echo. echo ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ echo. :EOF |
File: whatsuploop.cmd
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | @echo off ping -n 1 -l 8 -f %1>NUL if %errorlevel%==0 ( echo.>%temp%\%1.ok ) else ( echo.>%temp%\%1.false ) exit |
File: assets.txt
1 2 3 4 | COMPUTER1 COMPUTER2 COMPUTER3 etc.. |
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