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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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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:11 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Query Event Logs to Discover Active Directory Information?

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have this problem at work. I keep finding groups in Active Directory, and I do not know why they were created or by whom. I am wondering if there is some way to search Active Directory to see who created a group. Is there an owner
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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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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:24 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Search Active Directory with Windows PowerShell to Return a List of Missing Groups?

Hey, Scripting Guy! We created some groups that were used by our student interns. The student interns have now returned to college (yeah, it was a while ago). To be honest, I had actually forgotten about these groups, but the other day I was doing some
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:54 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Search Active Directory from Within Windows PowerShell?

Hey Scripting Guy! It seems that searching Active Directory from within Windows PowerShell is rather easy. But what I do not get is the syntax for the query. In the past I used something that looked more like SQL that the examples you show. What gives?
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Monday, March 16, 2009 6:22 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Search Active Directory?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I am just getting started using Windows PowerShell, and while it is pretty cool, I really need to be able to search Active Directory. I tried to adapt some old VBScripts I found laying around on the Internet, but it gets pretty long
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Friday, March 13, 2009 9:36 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (03/13/09)

How Can I Get Active Directory Information About Currently Logged-On Users? Hey, Scripting Guy! I need your help. How do I get currently logged-on users from Active Directory? - HS Hi HS, There is no way to accurately obtain this information, because
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Friday, November 21, 2008 9:27 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (11/21/08)

Troubleshooting the “Object Is Required” Error Hey, Scripting Guy! I am having a problem with my script. It keeps coming back and saying that an object is required. Why does it do that? - KA Hi KA, "Object required" is very generic. It means that (wait
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 8:25 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Find Locked-Out Accounts?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I know we probably should not do this, but we have account lockout set at work. If a user types in too many bad passwords, they are locked out forever. It requires a call to the help desk to have their account unlocked. The problem
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:24 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Find Old Computer Accounts?

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have had a number of changes at our company recently. As a result, our Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) installation is somewhat shabby. Okay, a lot shabby. When I go into AD DS Users and Computers and look through it, I
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:13 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Edit Terminal Server Profiles for Users in Active Directory?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to modify the terminal server profile for a bunch of users in Active Directory, and I don't get it. I can see the properties on Active Directory Users and Computers, but when I look in ADSI Edit, I cannot find the property names.
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Monday, May 12, 2008 10:39 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Determine the Distinguished Name of the OU Where the Logged-On User’s User Account Resides?

Hey, Scripting Guy! As part of a logon script, I need to determine the distinguished name of the OU for the user logging on. How can I do that? -- LK Hey, LK. Today is May 12 th , which might not mean much to you. But, then again, maybe it does; after
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Monday, March 31, 2008 9:33 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can Retrieve a List of All My Computer Accounts, Grouped By OU?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the computers in my domain, grouping those computers by the OU in which the computer account resides? -- TA Hey, TA. Well, today is Monday, and the Scripting Guy who writes this column is actually glad it’s
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