Category Archives: Scripting

PowerShell: Cancel all print jobs

Posted on 17 November, 2011 by Daniel

Here’s a quick PowerShell script I put together to delete all print jobs from our Windows Server 2008 R2 print server. It’s run overnight as a scheduled task. We do this because sometimes our print accounting software doesn’t clear out … Continue reading →

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Use the current date in a batch file

Posted on 11 October, 2010 by Daniel

I’d done this before, but couldn’t remember how to do it. I found this useful article on support.microsoft.com If you want to grab just the date digits section of today’s date, do the following (echoed in this example) echo %date:~-10,10% … Continue reading →

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Self-sign your Powershell scripts

Posted on 21 April, 2010 by Daniel

Creating my first Powershell script, I came up against code execution issues. Rather than take the easy (sketchy) way out and simply enable execution of unsigned code, I went and figured out how to sign my scripts using my internal … Continue reading →

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VBScript – Check if current user is a member of a certain group

Posted on 19 December, 2006 by Daniel

I found some code to do this out on the net the other day. I’ve modified it a little, and added the part that checks environment variables. Note: 11th October 2010 – Since this post is so popular, I’ve cleaned … Continue reading →

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Windows XP Print-Mapping Automation

Posted on 24 July, 2006 by Daniel

Found a useful feature in Windows XP the other week when stuffing around with print-mapping scripts. Instead of using the old con2prt feature to connect to printers, you can use Windows’ inbuilt printing APIs to map printers, add new drivers … Continue reading →

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