Enable diagnostics logging (VBScript)

This code can be found in Chapter 16 of Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd edition

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' This VBScript code sets the specified diagnostics logging level

' ---------------------------------------------------------------
' From the book "Active Directory Cookbook" by Robbie Allen
' ISBN: 0-596-00466-4
' ---------------------------------------------------------------

' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
strDC   = "<DomainControllerName>"  ' e.g. dc01
strLogSetting = "<LoggingSetting>"  ' e.g. 1 Knowledge Consistency Checker
intFlag = <FlagValue>               ' Flag value in decimal, e.g. 5
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------

const HKLM = &H80000002
strRegKey = "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Diagnostics"
set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strDC & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
objReg.SetDwordValue HKLM, strRegKey, "LogFlags", intFlag
WScript.Echo "Diagnostics logging for " & strLogSetting _
             & " set to " & intFlag

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