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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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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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Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:28 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Identify All Local Users, Groups, and Services on a Local Computer?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have several computers that seem to be identical, but they act like they are different. I mean, the same person set the computers up, so I imagine he followed the checklist and the machines should therefore be the same. But something
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Monday, March 23, 2009 6:26 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create the Same User Account and Password on Multiple Computers?

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have an application that runs on our local computers. It is a rather old application, and of course it is mission critical. Because this application is not Active Directory integrated, it means that I need to create a local user
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Monday, October 20, 2008 8:13 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create Users from a CSV File?

Hey, Scripting Guy! In your last article, you showed how to create random passwords for users and how to write that password out to a CSV file. You said if anyone asked that you would show how to use that CSV file and create a user from it. Well, here
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:25 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Standardize the Logon Name for All My Users?

Hey, Scripting Guy! My company would like me to change our Active Directory logon names from this format – kmyer – to this format: Ken.Myer . Is there a way I can script all these changes? -- DO Hey, DO. You know, sometimes the Scripting Guy who writes
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 6:29 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Modify the Email Addresses of All the Users in an OU and Its SubOUs?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to get a list of all the users in an OU and its subOUs, then change their email addresses so those addresses only user lowercase letters. How can I do that? -- TB Hey, TB. You know, we had to think twice before going ahead and
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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:06 PM

How Can I Remove a Specific Set of Users From the Local Administrators Group?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete all the users whose name starts with GER/ad_ from the local Administrators group on a computer? -- ID Hey, ID. It’s a Friday as the Scripting Guy who writes this column writes this column. Usually Fridays are a very
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:56 PM

How Can I Force All the Users in an OU to Change Their Password the Next Time They Log On?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I write a script that will force all the users in an OU to change their password the next time they log on? -- TH Hey, TH. You know, you picked a bad day to ask a question; the Scripting Guy who writes this column is in an
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Monday, December 11, 2006 12:45 PM

How Can I Copy My Users’ Phone Number Attribute to Their Description Attribute?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I copy a user’s phone number to his or her description for all the users in Active Directory? -- DL Hey, DL. You know, the Scripting Guy who writes this column considers today’s column to be his all-time favorite. Why? Because
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:24 PM

How Can I Delete All the Users in an Active Directory Group?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete all the users in an Active Directory group? -- AA Hey, AA. You know, that’s something we Scripting Guys never thought about: a script that could eliminate all the users in a particular group. The only problem we have
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:06 AM

How Can I Get a List of All the Users Who Have an Alternate Recipient?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the users who have an alternate recipient (altRecipient)? -- SA Hey, SA. You know, one of the great things about being a Scripting Guy is that we don’t ever have to know what we’re talking about; all we
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Friday, October 14, 2005 6:41 PM

How Can I Add a User to a Group if That User Belongs to Two Other Groups?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I check to see if a user is in both group A and group B and, if so, add that user to Group C? -- DH Hey, DH. Good heavens, how are we supposed to know that ?!? Sheesh. Sorry; we just always wanted to say that. Now that we have
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:10 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Bind to a User Account Using Something Other Than the CN Attribute?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I bind to an Active Directory account using the user’s mailNickname or their sAMAccoutName, something other than the CN? -- MB Hey, MB. When you bind to an account in Active Directory, you need to pass GetObject the account’s ADsPath.
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Monday, December 06, 2004 1:40 PM

How Can I Assign a New UPN to All My Users?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I assign a new UPN to all my users? -- CH Hey, CH. The UPN (or User Principal Name) provides an alternate way of logging on to a domain. Typically you log onto a domain by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete, typing in your user name,
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