April 2005 Entries

Conference Schedule Updated

I spent a few minutes updating the list of conferences I plan on attending over the next few months.  You can find that on the “Conferences” link list to the right. As you can see, I'll be returning to Vancouver in a few weeks to attend CanSecWest, which is probably the top security conference in the Pacific Northwest/British Columbia area.  Then I'll be able to attend a couple Seattle events before heading back to Vancouver later in the year for the West Coast Security Forum, which is always a good time.  A date hasn't been finalized for WCSF, so I haven't...

posted @ Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:52 PM | Feedback (1)

Enumerating all systems in an Active Directory domain

I often have to query all systems in a domain for some bit of information. I recently crafted a script that allows me to easily accomplish this, and I thought some of my readers might find it useful. The script will take a command-line argument for a single computer name, but if one is not specified it will act upon the entire domain.  You will need to modify the objCommand.CommandText line to suit your environment, obviously. 'We're using a dictionary object to hold the list of systems Set objDictionary = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary") 'Check for command-line arguments Set objArgs = wscript.Arguments If objArgs.Count = 0 Then ...

posted @ Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:33 PM | Feedback (1)