I am no fan of Twitter: sending trivial messages around the net simply isn’t my thing.
Lately my LinkedIn profile page got spammed more and more by the tweets of some of my connections.
Dumping those connections is an option, but hey: I am a nice guy.
So I went on the net looking for a solution….

Here’s how:

1. Log in to your LinkedIn homepage
2. In the middle you see the ‘customize’ link (at the ‘All Network Activity’ section)

3. click on the ‘customize’ link
4. in the new screen select the tab ‘manage updates by type’

5. Change the radio button from ‘Posts from your connections’ to ‘Hide’

6. Click on ‘save changes’

7. Log out and in to your LinkedIn page and the tweets are gone

#NoMoreTweetsForThisGuy

Best regards,

Dirk Adamsky

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Ok today it is modification day.
This script is a modification of the previous outlook details script.
The modification is in the filter at line number 25: the filter attribute userAccountControl with value 512 is added. A value of 512 stands for an enabled user. When you want to reverse the output to all disabled users change the value of userAccountControl to 514.

Follow the next steps to run the script (no admin rights needed):

* open your favorite text editor
* copy and paste the script into the editor
* save the script (for example c:tempoutlookdetails-enabled-users.vbs)
* open a command prompt
* go to “c:temp”
* give “cscript outlookdetails-enabled-users.vbs” (without quotes) and enter

The script:

' Name : outlookdetails-enabled-users.vbs
' Description : script to enumerate the Outlook details of all enabled users in your company
' Author : dirk adamsky - deludi bv
' Version : 1.00
' Date : 23-02-2010
' Level : intermediate

Option Explicit
Dim adoCommand, adoConnection, strBase, strFilter, strAttributes
Dim objRootDSE, strDNSDomain, strQuery, adoRecordset, strUserDN, objUser, protocolSettings, strUser

' Setup ADO objects.
Set adoCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set adoConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
adoConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
adoConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
adoCommand.ActiveConnection = adoConnection

' Search entire Active Directory domain.
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
strBase = "<LDAP://" & strDNSDomain & ">"

' Filter on user objects.
strFilter = "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(userAccountControl=512))"

' Comma delimited list of attribute values to retrieve.
strAttributes = "mail,givenname,initials,sn,displayname,mailNickname,postalAddress,title,company,l,department,
st,streetAddress,postalCode,co,telephoneNumber,mobile,info,physicalDeliveryOfficeName"

' Construct the LDAP syntax query.
strQuery = strBase & ";" & strFilter & ";" & strAttributes & ";subtree"
adoCommand.CommandText = strQuery
adoCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 100
adoCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30
adoCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False

' Run the query.
Set adoRecordset = adoCommand.Execute

' Enumerate the resulting recordset.
Do Until adoRecordset.EOF
    If adoRecordset.Fields("mail").Value <> "" Then
        If Left(adoRecordset.Fields("mail").Value, 13) <> "SystemMailbox" Then
            wscript.echo adoRecordset.Fields("mail").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("givenname").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("initials").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("sn").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("displayname").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("mailNickname").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("postalAddress").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("title").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("company").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("l").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("department").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("st").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("streetAddress").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("postalCode").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("co").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("physicalDeliveryOfficeName").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("telephoneNumber").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("mobile").Value &_
            ";" & adoRecordset.Fields("info").Value
		End If
	End If
	'Move to the next record in the recordset.
    adoRecordset.MoveNext
Loop
' Clean up.
adoRecordset.Close
adoConnection.Close

Set adoRecordset = Nothing
Set objRootDSE = Nothing
Set adoConnection = Nothing
Set adoCommand = Nothing

When you have problems/questions please post a reply.

Happy scripting.

Best regards,

Dirk Adamsky – Deludi BV

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