Listing Members of the Local Administrators Group of Computers in a Domain

Here's a script which lists all members of the local administrators group for each computer in a domain. The computers.ini file contains the list of hostnames of all computers in the domain whereas the results.csv file will store the local administrators information. The usual disclaimer applies:

Microsoft Technet Summer Scripting Games : Javelin Throw

I was invited to be a guest commentator for the Javelin Throw event during the recently concluded Microsoft Technet's Summer Scripting Games. For this scenario, I had to write a time logger with time-stamped text entries that describe a particular activity. I created a VB script that accepts user inputs as arguments, stores these together with the date and time of the activity, amount of time spent on the activity, the status of the activity and some remarks onto a CSV file.

You can find my write-up and solution at this link:

http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2009/06/24/hey-scripting-guy-event-9-solutions-from-expert-commentators-beginner-and-advanced-the-javelin-throw.aspx

Checking for Remote Desktop Status of a Remote Server

Here's a script that checks for the Remote Desktop feature status of a remote server. The server hostnames are read off a servers.ini file. The server's registry is then queried for the DWORD value of fDenyTSConnections under the server's HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server registry key.

List Local Users of Remote Systems (Powershell)

Here's a Powershell script that reads the hostnames off a text file (hosts.ini) and lists all the local users of the remote host: