Savory Ape

Say you have a script—like the previous CIM Repository Listing script—that outputs hundreds of rows of text via WScript.Echo. On the command line, this is fine; the text will go scrolling by, and can be piped to the more command or grep (yes, really), or logged to a file. But if you make the mistake [...]

When starting to troubleshoot a Windows Server problem, the best place to look is the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI); this little enclave of information—on every Windows machine—acts like a datastore representing the configuration of every nook and cranny of a system. But knowing what to look for is half the battle. Recently, I was faced [...]