SysAdmin Day Calendar Item Creation Script

chrisseiter · 2011-07-29T13:46:44.000Z

Description

My very first script submission. This small VBScript will create a calendar event in Outlook for the “SysAdmin Day” for 2012. Use it as a login script or slip it in throughout the year in an update and get a reminder on everyone’s calendar! For the next year just change the .start attribute date.

Source Code

Const olAppointmentItem = 1
set objoutlook = createobject("outlook.application")
set objAppointment = objoutlook.createitem(olAppointmentItem)
objAppointment.Start = "7/27/2012"
objAppointment.Subject = "System's Administrator Day"
objAppointment.Body = "http://www.sysadminday.com"
objAppointment.AllDayEvent = True
objAppointment.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 15
objAppointment.ReminderSet = True
objAppointment.Save

christophero · 2011-07-29T20:00:28.000Z

lol…that’s pretty good and not so in-their-face about it

dennisboyd · 2011-07-29T22:21:12.000Z

Subtle, I like it!

john6020 · 2011-08-12T09:07:50.000Z

Nice one to play with - thank you!

dariena · 2011-09-19T10:48:14.000Z

Very nice!

jason-merrifield · 2011-10-06T12:26:07.000Z

Awesome. Great first script.

jonk-lambton · 2011-11-04T07:59:55.000Z

If you guys can create one for Google Apps I’d be much appreciative of it.

reth1nk · 2012-01-04T21:07:39.000Z

Love it. Altered it for a few important things I thought people should have in their calendar. thanks.

Bryan-Young · 2012-01-19T09:55:09.000Z

hahah i love it

brandonhaff9027 · 2012-06-12T05:22:09.000Z

Awesome Script.

dsentelle · 2012-06-13T11:29:15.000Z

That’s excellent. Too bad if I deployed it I would get all of my users calling and asking if they had a virus.

tonystahl · 2012-06-14T14:56:13.000Z

How about one for GroupWise?

craigshuey · 2012-07-19T13:34:18.000Z

Cool script. It was silent. But we need a way for it to run only once.

schitti · 2012-07-20T01:30:33.000Z

nice! thx!

zulkarnainalexvincent1499 · 2012-07-22T19:25:08.000Z

really cool way to advertise myself…thx

bmcnamara · 2012-07-24T06:37:38.000Z

A great way to get some acknowledgment for all our hard work

johnbowdre9494 · 2012-07-25T09:50:50.000Z

I just posted a modified version of this script which will first check to make sure we’re not creating duplicate entries in a user’s calendar. This should make it a bit more useful as a login script. http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/1520-sysadmin-day-calendar-item-creation-script-de-duped-for-use-as-login-script

Andrew-Wiggin · 2012-07-26T16:28:59.000Z

Thanks for the code to make sure it doesn’t already exist! -though, i would like to point out that one of my users couldn’t log on to Citrix with the modified Script. windows app log reported that outlook was closed because it hung…

redovenbird · 2012-07-27T08:30:47.000Z

prettycool! thank you

anthonymccann3514 · 2012-07-30T05:27:42.000Z

Nice. Thanks