Have you seen this about passwords and GPOs? http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2013/11/why-passwords-in-group-policy-preference-are-very-bad/
Smita Carneiro, GCWN Active Directory Systems Engineer IT Security and Policy www.itap.purdue.edu<http://www.itap.purdue.edu> [ITaP logo clipping path2] From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Landry Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 3:04 PM To: scripting@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [scripting] RE: bat file will only run one time Yes .. I saw that. But we have a GPO that changes it and keeps it something else on all systems globally. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Sean Martin Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 4:58 PM To: scripting@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:scripting@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: Re: [scripting] RE: bat file will only run one time Next step is changing your admin password. - Sean On Sep 12, 2017, at 12:39 PM, David Landry <david.lan...@lairdtech.com<mailto:david.lan...@lairdtech.com>> wrote: Thank you to all for all the guidance. It is very much appreciated. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Benke, Richard L. (WWRC) Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 4:20 PM To: scripting@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:scripting@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [scripting] RE: bat file will only run one time I numbered the lines for reference. You’re opening a file handle in line 13, but you’re never closing it. This is leaving the file handle open for that instance of the script, which is preventing subsequent instances of the script from being able to open it. End your script with another objTS.Close (like in line 11) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Landry Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 2:15 PM To: scripting@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:scripting@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [scripting] bat file will only run one time Hi All, I will admit up front, my script write abilities are slim. I have this script that I found to insert a new line of text into an .ini file and it works perfectly …. But for just one time. During my testing I removed the inserted line and text and then reran the script. Only this time it didn’t do anything. Nothing got inserted. After rerunning this a dozen times or so I can’t figure out why. I tried this on a Windows 10 and a Windows 7 system with same behavior. It ran only once on each system. 1. set objWS = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") 2. Set fsob=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 1. strNewLine = "AdminPassword=@dm1n1$trat0r!" 2. strFileName = "C:\test\script\CustomSettings.ini" ' for example c:\textfile.txt 1. Const FOR_READING = 1 2. Const FOR_WRITING = 2 3. strCheckForString = UCase("SkipAdminPassword=YES") 4. Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 5. Set objTS = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFileName, FOR_READING) 6. strContents = objTS.ReadAll 7. objTS.Close 8. arrLines = Split(strContents, vbNewLine) 9. Set objTS = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFileName, FOR_WRITING) 10. For Each strLine In arrLines 11. If (Left(UCase(LTrim(strLine)),Len(strCheckForString)) = strCheckForString) Then 12. objTS.WriteLine strLine 13. objTS.WriteLine strNewLine 14. else 15. objTS.WriteLine strLine 16. End If Can anyone explain this to me? What needs to be changed? Thanks in advance Dave L.
