Sysinternals: Auto update script for sysinternals tools

November 5, 2009
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I have written it many times but I like to say it again and again. I am a Sysinternals fan. I use their tools quite often, if not everyday. Sysinternals team releases updates to these tools often. These updates are either bug fixes or somtimes new features / tools. There are multiple ways to know about these updates

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Updates to VMHeartBeat.vbs

July 26, 2009

One of my blog readers — the actual requestor of this script — modified the script to add retry count and sleep interval in the monitor loop. He has been kind enough to share the changes with me. BTW, he is using this in production. I am posting this script here as is.
Thanks Jerry.

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Bing developer APIs – A VBScript demonstration

June 11, 2009

Bing - the most talked about and the most innovative decision engine. There is lot of talk on the Internet about this already. I am not going to write a review on that here. I want to show how developers can use – using a simple VBScript — the power of Bing in their applications.

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Understanding memory leaks – the simple way

May 30, 2009

A memory leak generally happens if you have a used a part of memory to store some data and do not release it when the work is complete. This kind of programming logic when used within a loop or an infinite loop can be quite disastrous.

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Obtaining WDS server IP from WDS PXE boot

March 31, 2009

Recently, I worked on some automation related to OS recovery using WDS and in that process I needed to obtain the WDS server IP address using a script. In this scenario, I used a custom WinPE boot image and no install image. Hence, I modified startnet.bat to invoke a custom application to do OS recovery. Coming to [...]

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VBScript to change the default VHD / VM location

October 24, 2008

I have found numerous resources on the net to perform this using PowerShell scripting. However, doing the same in VBScript isn’t straight forward. I needed this piece of code for my HVS2008 UI project on Codeplex. I just worked on it and wanted to share the same here.

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