WMI is a DCOM application; therefore, when you make calls to WMI in your script—whether they’ll run on a local or remote machine—DCOM comes into play. If your WMI script attempts to execute WMI ...

It's time to step back a bit, however, and learn some of the technical details of remote scripting before we go any further. It's all well and good to jump in and try things, but sometimes we hit a ...

Over at ScriptingAnswers.com (my Web site on administrative scripting), we’ve had a number of users fighting with Windows XP SP2 issues related to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scripting.

Symantec's flagship consumer antivirus application contains a vulnerability that can allow certain malicious scripts to pass through without being scanned, according to a security researcher. Dan ...

You could wrap it up as a software install, or run it with something like a login script or psexec, but you could just change the SID on every machine, instead of ...

Can't figure this one out. <BR><BR>I'm a member of the Domain Admins group in a Windows 2000 Mixed Mode domain. No NT servers anywhere though.<BR><BR>My desktop is running Windows XP Sp2. I go to ...

As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

Writing scripts for remote computer management can save man-hours and shoe leather. But like any part of Windows, it has to be properly secured, or you risk opening up your network to the bad guys.