Reboot Nag, Using AutoIt by Tom Watson - 1/4/2010 Something I was trying to get my head around lately was how to do a reboot nag that displays a balloon, similar to Automatic Updates. This is something that could be fairly useful at the tail end of SMS packages etc.
Dynamically Renaming a Computer with VBScript by Steve Thompson - 12/1/2009 Helped out a colleague recently with an interesting scenario; as part of an Active Directory consolidation project and reimage strategy, he wanted to have a computer automatically renamed then rebooted.
8 Ways to Manipulate a Service by Shaun Cassells - 9/28/2009 I have been working on a client health script and one of the key issues was how to configure a service. There are two components of a service runtime that are most relevant at first, is it running? What the service set to do?