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Friday, July 31, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (7/31/09)

How Can I Migrate AutoText When I Upgrade from One Version of Microsoft Office to Another? Hey, Scripting Guy! We are in the process of converting from Office 2003 to Office 2007. Many people use AutoText and I am trying to automate the process of converting
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:22 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Remove a Microsoft Update?

Hey, Scripting Guy! You are not going to believe this. We recently deployed a Microsoft Update, and it is not working well for us. I tested it, of course, but for some reason it is not playing well with our systems. I now need to determine what the problem
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:21 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Search For, Download, and Install an Update?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Reporting on whether a Windows Update is installed or not is pretty cool. However, what happens when I determine the update has not been applied? Am I supposed to call the user and talk them through connecting to the Microsoft Update
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:21 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Tell Which Software Updates Are Available Via Windows Update?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I am curious about the updates that are available from Windows Update. The whole process seems so nebulous. It is like some kind of Impressionist painting that suggests things, but I never really get a feel for the updates that are
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Monday, March 09, 2009 6:20 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I List All Updates That Have Been Added to a Computer?

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have Windows Update configured on all our workstations at work. Automatically, the workstations check for new updates, and download and install the updates that are required. This happens without user intervention, or from intervention
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:23 AM

How Can I Modify the Output of the Ping Command?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I place the current date and time at the beginning of each line of Ping.exe output? -- AL Hey, AL. We have to admit, we were a little shocked by your question. Change the output of the Ping command? Really, AL. Would you ask
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Friday, February 24, 2006 8:05 AM

How Can I Prevent a Computer from Using the LMHosts File?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I prevent a computer from using the LMHosts file? -- MJ Hey, MJ. You know, this was an interesting one, at least for the Scripting Guys. Not because the script was hard to write; that was actually pretty easy. What was hard
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:57 AM

How Can I Display the IP Addresses Associated with a Given MAC Address?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I display the IP addresses associated with a given MAC address? -- NK Hey, NK. Before we answer your question we should take a moment to answer a related question. People often ask us, “If I have a MAC address can I write a
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Friday, September 30, 2005 11:36 AM

How Can I Determine if a Particular Patch is Installed?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use a script to determine if a particular patch has been installed? -- GM Hey, GM. You know, not too long ago this would have been a question we might have “accidentally” dropped in the wastebasket and pretended never to
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 4:57 PM

How Can I Determine When the Last Patch From Windows Update was Applied?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when the last patch from Windows Update was applied? -- JP Hey, JP. You know, you picked a good time to ask this question; that’s because we just published a Tales from the Script column that introduces scripters
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:01 AM

How Can I Associate a Network Connection with an IP Address?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the local area connection that’s associated with a particular IP address? -- SH Hey, SH. Believe it or not, this is a fairly complicated procedure, and for two reasons. To begin with, we have to use two separate
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:27 AM

How Can I Rename a Local Area Connection?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I rename a local area connection? -- AP Hey, AP. You know, you hurt our feelings here: we Microsoft types spent a lot of time coming up with clever and catchy names like Local Area Connection, Local Area Connection 2, and Local
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Monday, April 25, 2005 1:24 PM

How Can I Configure a Computer to Use a Dynamically-assigned DNS Server?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I configure a computer to use a dynamically-assigned DNS Server? -- JB Hey, JB. Ah, this question brings back memories. A couple years ago the Scripting Guys were faced with this same problem, and discovered the answer entirely
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:34 AM

Why Doesn't My Ping Script Run on Windows 2000 Computers?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that pings a computer before it tries to connect to it. The script works fine on Windows XP, but doesn’t work at all on my Windows 2000 computers. Do you have any idea why? -- AK Hey, AK. As a matter of fact, we do
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