Recently I received an email from ricardo.ch where I am registered. Ricardo.ch is an e-auction platform. This E-Mail was a phishing mail that is very poor translated from english to german 馃檪 so I didn鈥檛 have to think a lot about it. It wants you to install a SSL 3 Certificate (root_ca_ssl3.exe) for further using ricardo. 1st mistake: SSL Certificates aren鈥檛 provided as exe. 2nd mistake: Certificates are installed on the Webserver and not on clients...
This sample code stores the directory path where the script was started in a variable. It鈥檚 usefull because you can move the script wherever you want (even UNC locations) and the paths remains correct. 1 2 3 4 Option Explicit Dim strSourcePath strSourcePath = Left(WScript.ScriptFullName,Len(WScript.ScriptFullName) _ - Len(WScript.ScriptName)) The returned String contains already a trailing slash () so you just have to add the rest of the path or the exe...
As i set up a Windows Deployment Server in our Company and wanted to test the unattended Installation of Applications i had a big annoying Problem: Everytime i wanted to test a new unattended Setup i had to install the whole Operating System and wait for Apps installation to see if they work. Or if i simply changed one parameter in an Application and wanted to test this i had to wait about half an hour for OS Installation....