September, 2009

Hey, Scripting Guy! I am a faithful reader of the Hey, Scripting Guy! articles and have been a Dr. Scripto fan for years. I love your new TechNet Script Center Gallery too by the way. It is much easier to use and to locate scripts than what you had before...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! I am trying to get a handle around the security of a folder on my computer. I need to be able to figure out a way to determine who has access and what those access rights are. I guess I could use the Icacls utility...

Can I Find Out Who Has Access to a Group of Files and Folders? Hey, Scripting Guy! For security reasons I need to find out who has access to a certain group of files and folders. Using the Get-Acl cmdlet, I can get a list of which IDs and groups...

(Portions of this article previously appeared in the Microsoft Press book, Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide .) Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to use Windows PowerShell to obtain information about the status of services that are configured on...

(Portions of this article previously appeared in the Microsoft Press book, Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide .) Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to be able to write a listing of the services that are running to a Microsoft Access database. I would...

(Portions of this article previously appeared in the Microsoft Press book, Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide .) Hey, Scripting Guy! I am interested in collecting information about processes that are stopped on my systems. I would like to write...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find out what folders a user has specifically been granted or denied access to. I do not need the specific rights that were granted. I only need to find out where the user was specifically granted or denied...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! Our company is in the process of obtaining the ISO 20000 certification for IT service management and as a result it seems we have to have documentation and processes in place...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! There is this guy at work…well, actually he used to be at work and that is the problem. He left the company. The way security has been implemented at our company, I have to check...

Share this post: Can I Delete All Items in the Deleted Items Folder? Hey, Scripting Guy! I need a VBScript script that will delete all of the e-mails in the Deleted Items folder. I have tried to do this, but I am not able to get it to delete all of the...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a number of files that were manually created by various people in a common folder. Unfortunately, they did not follow a specific naming convention as well as they should, and as a result they do not sort very...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! We use text files in special folders to determine if we have performed an operation on a computer. For example, we might install a piece of software on a computer. While it...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a number of files that I work with based upon the date the file was created. I need an easy way to sort the listing of the files in a folder by creation date if possible. I am not sure this is even possible. When I look at the...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a number of files that we need to access at work from time to time. To protect these files, we make them read-only. This works great from a file protection standpoint, but it is really annoying when I need to make updates to...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! I hate typing dates. There are several ways of typing dates, and they are all a pain. I do not like having to type the numbers and the whacks, and I do not like having to spell...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to display a calendar so that I can pick starting dates and ending dates by using a graphical tool. This is much easier and faster than having to type...

Share: WMI Printer Classes and Writing to a Log File Hey, Scripting Guy! I am new to scripting and love the power and flexibility scripting gives me. I am writing—or rather, trying to write—a login script that...

Share this post : Hey, Scripting Guy! I recently ran across the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog and have been fascinated by the different things you can do with scripts. I now think I can use them to make my life easier as a network administrator. So here is...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! At work we have a series of folders that are used to store files for a month. At the end of the month, we need to delete all of the files that are in the folders and start over. The folder structure is very nested;...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! I hate to type numbers. I actually took typing in high school and did really well with it. I was able to type more than 40 words per minute at the end of the class with no...

Share this post: Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file that contains a number of computer names. I would like to read that text file, query each computer in the list, and find out the status of a particular hotfix. If I could write the information to...

Share this post: Hey Scripting Guy! I stumbled across the TechNet Script Center recently while trying to solve a problem I had at work. I had heard about scripting, of course, but had never taken the time to learn...