Archive for the ‘VBS’ category

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From China with Love

June 20, 2010

I received two gifts from a family member returning from China. It was a lovely though and I was touched by the gesture. Both items are of the geek variety and bought from stalls, one a ball point pen with a built in 2GB USB stick that can act as a voice recorder and the [...]

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Forefront and MOM agents not playing nice on the MOM console

August 3, 2008

These annoying errors keep popping up in my Forefront MOM console from Forefront MOM agents on random machines around the network. Error in the MOM Console Type: Warning Provider Name: Application Event Number: 21294 Description: The response processor was denied to execute a response. The action account the MOM Agent is using doesn’t have enough [...]

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Niffy VBS for deploying Forefront without MOM

May 6, 2008

Found this on the Ms technet forums after hacking up a batch script to do the same sort of thing. ****************************************************************** ‘ Purpose: Launches install of Forefront client in ‘ standalone mode ‘***************************************************************** Option Explicit Dim WshShell Dim MsgVar1 Dim MsgVar2 MsgVar1 = “Install Forefront Security” MsgVar2 = “Install Microsoft Forefront?” & VbCrLf & VbCrLf [...]

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The trouble with clones

February 9, 2008

WSUS and clones, it appears, have a bit of a problem. Despite sysprep and other steps cloned machines keep their WSUS ID. Therefore you only every see one of the cloned machines in the WSUS console. This is a well know issue, but one I keep forgetting … To avoid mucking around with purging registry [...]