File Grooming v.1.0.1 (moving, compressing, deleting) made simple

Last night I couldn’t sleep so I decided to write a new application. Where I work I constantly run into issues of low disk space on servers because log files are left on them for months or sometimes years past their necessary retention span. Of course different customers and different applications all have different retention spans. This is when I decided to create File Grooming. File Grooming v.1.0.1 is a simple command line utility that can be set up as a scheduled task or just simply run from a command line when necessary. First the user specifies the directory to groom and then they can choose if they would like to move the files, compress the files, compress and move the files, or simply delete the files outside of their retention period.

For example, currently I have one client set up where if the log files are more than 7 days old it will archive them and move them to a different drive. It will also monitor that location for files over 60 days old and delete them.  I have also set up logging capabilities in the application so the user can have a clear list to see what activities have been invokes and against which files.

This is a very lightweight application and of course being version 1.0.1 I’m sure there will be plenty of ideas for improvements and advancements. So if this sounds like a useful application to you please download it and let me know what you think so I can continue to better improve my applications. I would also like to thank everyone who donates, it is your kind donations that allow me to continue to provide freeware and really show your appreciation. So Thank you once again.

 Requirements:

Windows 2000 or newer

As always all questions and comments are welcome and appreciated. Thank you and god bless.

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VBScript - Change your list seperator/delimiter

Depending on what I'm doing I like to change my list separator accordingly. Sometimes I need to create/open a .csv file except I don't want comma's to be the seperator in that file. Other times I do... So I decided instead of having to constantly go into the control panel and change my settings I just created two scripts. One with "|" as the list seperator and another with the standard comma.

What this script does exactly is goes into the registry and overwrites the current list separator with the one provided. Just change the highlighted value from a , to whatever you'd like.

const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strComputer = "."
 Set StdOut = WScript.StdOut
Set oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" &_
strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
strValue = ","
oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER,Control Panel\International,sList,strValue





Of course this is just a standard registry string creation script so it can be modified to do endless things with. Get creative but please know what you're doing. Messing around in the registry can be nice, but it can also be very dangerous.

 

 Requirements:

Windows XP or newer

As always all questions and comments are welcome and appreciated. Thank you and god bless.

VBscript - Gather All local users and group members

I created THIS SCRIPT to help audit who has access to a list of servers and what level of access they have. What this script does is read a text file (servers.txt) and outputs a .csv file listing all local accounts and all groups with their members along with if the account is enabled or disabled. It also creates a compare list of all the administrators so if the script is run once a week/month or what-not you are provided with a list of the New administrators of that time period which is created in a separate .csv called New Admins(date).csv

I do my best to keep these scripts easy to read and easy to modify as desired, however it is highly recommended that you are aware of what exactly each and every script you execute is performing.

 Requirements:

Windows 98 or newer

As always all questions and comments are welcome and appreciated. Thank you and god bless.

Disclaimer: Your use of the information contained in this blog, is solely at your own risk. All information provided on this blog and in its downloads are "as -is", without any warranty, whether express or implied, of its accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement. Further, we shall not be liable for any damages you may sustain by using this information, whether direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential, even if it has been advised of the possibility of such damages.