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Friday, November 06, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (11/6/09)

In this post : Using the Active Directory DirectoryEntry Class How Can I Run a Script Whenever a New USB Drive Is Attached to a Computer? Making a Specific Windows PowerShell 2.0 Script Work with Windows PowerShell 1.0 Can I Use VBScript to Distinguish
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Generate a List of All Groups of Which a User Is a Member?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to get a list of all the groups of which a user is a member. I do not mean the groups of which the user is a direct member, but I need to know all of the groups. You know that groups can be members of other groups, and other
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Get a List of All Users in a Domain Without Their Manager Attribute Populated?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to get a list of all the users that have set their manager in Active Directory. We have this Web application that allows users to populate information such as their phone number, their office location, and their manager. We
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Get a List of Domain Controllers in My Domain? (Part 2)

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to obtain a listing of the domain controllers in my domain. I am thinking about using Windows PowerShell to query the Domain Controllers Organizational Unit, but I am not sure this is the right approach. Will this work? If it
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Monday, October 05, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Get a List of Domain Controllers in My Domain? (Part 1)

Hey, Scripting Guy! I hope you do not think I am clueless, but I need to obtain a list of all the domain controllers in my domain. Can you help me out by writing a Windows PowerShell script to list all of the domain controllers in my domain? -- KH Hello
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Move a Group from One Organizational Unit to Another?

Hey Scripting Guy! I need to be able to move a group from one organizational unit to another. The problem is that our network has thousands of groups and organizational units. What I need is a way to easily find the group and the organizational unit.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Add a User to Multiple Groups?

Hey Scripting Guy! It seems that I can never find what I need anymore. I am looking for a Windows PowerShell script that will add a user to multiple groups. The user and the group are in the same organizational unit, and I do not want to have to run the
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Remove All Group Members in Active Directory?

Hey Scripting Guy! I have several groups created in Active Directory whose membership has changed dramatically. Rather than go through a long list of users and try to manually clean up the list, I would like to just delete all the users from the group
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Monday, July 27, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create Organizational Units with Windows PowerShell?

( Note Today’s response is taken from Ed Wilson’s book, Windows PowerShell Step by Step , which is available on Microsoft Press.) Hey, Scripting Guy! At my company, we are often called upon to create objects in Active Directory. I do not mind using the
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Friday, July 24, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (7/24/09)

Troubleshooting a VBScript Script That Reports All Software Installed on a Computer Hey Scripting Guy! I am pretty new to use VBScript and seem to have hit a wall. I put together the script below to output a file containing all the software installed
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Friday, July 17, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (7/17/09)

How Can I Query a Registry Value Remotely? I have a simple question: What is the equivalent to querying the MicrosoftIE_Summary WMI class in Windows Vista? I just need to get the version of Internet Explorer. One small problem though: The Windows PowerShell
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Friday, May 01, 2009 9:40 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (05/01/09)

How Can I Get Help with Scripts I’m Writing? Hey, Scripting Guy! I am a novice scripter but am being diligent about learning more specifically around VBScript. I am following the Microsoft Press book, Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide , and
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Friday, March 27, 2009 9:37 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (03/27/09)

Determining if SQL Is Installed; How to Read Paired Information into a Dictionary Object Hey, Scripting Guy! Being an avid reader of your columns for the last several years has been a blast. I wrote you once before but with no success (in terms of a reply,
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Friday, March 20, 2009 9:36 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (03/20/09)

Troubleshooting an Active Directory HTA Hey, Scripting Guy! I have created an HTML Application (HTA) to prompt a support person for their administrative ID and password and a computer name that they wish to delete from Active Directory. The script uses
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:24 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Search Active Directory and Produce a Report?

Hey, Scripting Guy! We are in the situation where we are closing a number of remote offices, and I need to quickly be able to generate a list of the computers that are contained in those remote offices. Basically I need to be able to generate a report
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