>Imagine this – 200 servers and 1,500 workstations. How would you change the local Administrator password (or any other account which you use to administer the local machine)? Being the lazy guy as I always have been, I don’t want to do things which would be repetitive so I wrote a script. This uses a list of servers and workstations stored in a text file named computerList.txt (you can use either hostnames or IP addresses although I prefer IP) and generates a CSV file which I can use as a report.

Dim loopCount, directory, objFSO,objFile,objFSO2,objFile2

‘Gets the directory where our script is running from
directory = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”).GetParentFolderName(Wscript.ScriptFullName)

Set objFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(directory & “computerList.txt”, 1)

‘===LOG of servers with successful PING
strFilePath = directory & “serversPING.csv”
Set objFSO2 = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
‘ Open the file for write access.
On Error Resume Next
Set objFile2 = objFSO2.OpenTextFile(strFilePath, 2, True, 0)
If (Err.Number <> 0) Then
On Error GoTo 0
Wscript.Echo “File ” & strFilePath & ” cannot be opened”
Set objFSO2 = Nothing
End If
On Error GoTo 0

‘Write HEADER
objFile2.WriteLine “SERVER,REACHABLE,PASSWORD CHANGED”

Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
strComputer = objFile.ReadLine

If Reachable(strComputer) Then
strReachable = “REACHABLE”
strPasswordChanged = “SUCCESSFUL”
Call SetPassword(strComputer)
Else
strReachable = “UNREACHABLE”
strPasswordChanged = “FAILURE”
End If

objFile2.WriteLine strComputer & “,” & strReachable & “,” & strPasswordChanged

Loop

objFile.Close
Set objFSO =NOTHING
Set objFile = NOTHING

objFile2.Close
Set objFSO2 =NOTHING
Set objFile2 = NOTHING

MSGBOX “Finished”

‘===============================
Function Reachable(strComputer)
‘ On Error Resume Next

Dim wmiQuery, objWMIService, objPing, objStatus

For Each objStatus in objPing
If IsNull(objStatus.StatusCode) Or objStatus.Statuscode<>0 Then
Reachable = False ‘if computer is unreacable, return false
Else
Reachable = True ‘if computer is reachable, return true
End If
Next
End Function

‘===================================
Function SetPassword(strComputer)
strComputer = strComputer
Set objUser = GetObject(“WinNT://” & strComputer & “/Administrator, user”)
objUser.SetPassword “T3$tP@$$w0rd“
objUser.SetInfo

End Function

Imagine how much time can be saved if you needed to do this ever 45 days. I’ll work on something which reads Active Directory for the list of all computers and servers joined in the domain so one does not need to create the computerList.txt file