You'll need to give uses the rights to modify that field on all computer objects they might log into.
From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Script to fill in last user - ok real Q this time. OOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooohhhh nice, totally overlooked the GPO potential on this bad boy. From: KenM [mailto:kenmli...@gmail.com]<mailto:[mailto:kenmli...@gmail.com]> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Script to fill in last user - ok real Q this time. How are you running this? I would create a GPO and link to the OU you have the computers in. Under the user config assign this as a login script and also enable loopback processing for the GPO so it is applied to users. On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:49 PM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org<mailto:david....@nwea.org>> wrote: OK I'll try not to keep answering these myself, is there a way to make this apply to just a specific OU? I would like it to NOT run in my OU with servers in it. Can I just change the LDAP:// references to look at a specific OU? Sub DoADDescription Dim ad, objUser, objComputer Set ad = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & ad.UserName) Set objComputer = GetObject("LDAP://" & ad.ComputerName) strMessage = objUser.Department & ", " & objUser.CN & ", " & Day(Now()) & "/" & month(now()) & "/" & right(year(now()),2) objComputer.Description = strMessage objComputer.SetInfo End Sub Dave From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org<mailto:david....@nwea.org>] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Script to fill in last user Of course I send this and then find it...thanks Mr. Hutchings! :) Dave From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org]<mailto:[mailto:david....@nwea.org]> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Script to fill in last user One of you guys has a VBS script to populate the "Description" field in AD with the last logged in user but I have lost that little tidbit..... David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229<tel:503.548.5229> // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764<tel:503.267.9764> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
