Dave Roth
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Dave Roth is the author of several Win32 Perl extensions, including Win32::AdminMisc, Win32::ODBC, Win32::Daemon, and Win32::Perms. His most recent book is Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions, 2nd edition (New Riders Publishing/Macmillan Technical Publishing).
Email address: rothd@roth.net
Web site: http://www.roth.net
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43 results found for Dave Roth, displaying items 1 - 20
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December 17, 2007 |
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Find Email Accounts in AD
Keeping track of multiple email accounts for a single user can be tricky. Here's a script that leverages Perl and Active Directory to locate the Exchange users' addresses you want.
Windows IT Pro
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March 21, 2007 |
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Validate File Extensions
Run this script to find orphaned file-extension mappings that might point to viruses, malware, or other file-deletion problems.
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March 21, 2007 |
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The 64-Bit Wildcard
If you run a 32-bit version of Perl.exe on an x64 machine, this article’s script will see only the 32-bit part of the registry and its output might be a bit misleading.
Windows IT Pro
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August 11, 2006 |
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A Hassle-Free Way to Read Hex Dumps
If you've worked with hexadecimal dumps, you know that they're a strain on not only your eyes but also your time. Fortunately, you can use HexDump.pl to eliminate this tedious task.
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July 11, 2006 |
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Locating Email Accounts in AD
Administrators often create multiple email accounts for one user. How do you keep track of them? Here's a script that leverages Perl and AD to locate the addresses you want.
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June 12, 2006 |
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Capture the Clipboard’s Contents
With the Win32::Clipboard extension, you can eliminate the time-consuming task of copying and pasting data into input files for scripts.
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May 8, 2006 |
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Query IGD Port Maps
With Universal Plug and Play’s programmatic-configuration convenience comes an added burden of monitoring who or what might be changing your Internet Gateway Device (IGD) settings. QueryPortMap.pl makes the job easy.
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Universal Plug and Play
Before tackling Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) programming, research how the architecture works.
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April 10, 2006 |
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Detect Directory Differences
Here’s a script that you can use to compare the files in two directories.
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February 13, 2006 |
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Event Response on the Cheap
You might not know it, but Windows offers system components that let you easily write code to enable event response. Check out this WMI solution.
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January 17, 2006 |
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“Not Enough Memory” Pop-Ups Plaguing Your PC?
Does your PC often pop up a window with a message that says you don’t have enough memory available on your hard disk? If so, here’s a Perl script that can help you avoid these irritating messages.
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February 8, 2005 |
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How to Script In-Your-Face Alerts
Here’s a script that you can use to monitor remote machines on a network. It also demonstrates how a Perl script can interact with the taskbar status area to provide an alert you can’t ignore.
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September 13, 2004 |
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Scripting Windows Media Services 101
With the recent revamping of WMS, more companies are beginning to take advantage of streaming media. Here’s an introduction to streaming media, WMS, and how to manage WMS with Perl scripts.
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July 12, 2004 |
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Rem: Running Software That’s Not Installed Locally
With DCOM, you can use applications that aren’t installed on your machine. However, this practice can be dangerous.
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May 10, 2004 |
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Prioritize Your Perl Scripts
Use this code to prevent CPU-intensive applications from bringing other processes to a crawl.
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April 12, 2004 |
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Rem: List the Processes That Have Files Open
Have you ever tried to rename or delete a file and received an error message that says you can’t because the source or destination file is in use? Here are some tools that let you determine which processes are using that file.
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April 12, 2004 |
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An Email Filtering Script
Use a transport event sink script to mitigate the effect of email messages that contain viruses and other malicious code on your Exchange server.
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Managing Autorun Applications
Tired of unknown applications installing themselves in your disk directories and registry? Use this Perl script to remove them.
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October 6, 2003 |
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Clear Out Cached Data
Use this simple Perl script to clean up cached data.
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October 6, 2003 |
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Discovering Paths
Find out how CleanCache.pl discovers the paths to cached data.
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