How Can I Create Unique User Permissions on Windows Server 2003 with Group Policy? Hey, Scripting Guy! We are using Windows Server 2003 R2. I want to create a Group Policy policy setting for individual users according to their permission on folders. Currently, we are just using a folder share to all users. We have almost 40 users and approximately 100 folders on our server, but the problem is we cannot define more than 15 or 20 folders for a single user because the folders must be changed upon completion

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 a logon can come in many different forms. As I sit in my house in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States, I am logged on to my domain. But I have done so in two ways. In the first manner, I logged on to my laptop by using cached credentials.

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a number of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) that are not really doing anything. In fact, they are about as useless as an old hound dog with sinus problems. What I need is an easy way to find these old GPOs and produce a list so I can decide if I wish to delete them. Can you help me? - JG Hi JG, "That dog won't hunt." I am not sure exactly what that means, but it is the only dog expression I know. I guess because I am living in the Southern part of the United States, I should

Hey, Scripting Guy! Good morning. We are in the process of modifying our Group Policy implementation, and I anticipate having to create 15 or so new Group Policy objects. I know that I can open the Group Policy Management Console, right-click, and go through the wizard, but I would prefer to have a script that would create the Group Policy objects for me. Can this be done? - CC Hi CC, The good news is that we can do exactly what you asked. We can create new Group Policy objects from a script. The

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem. I have been elected, given the honor, granted the opportunity to excel (whatever management euphemism you wish to use to describe getting the shaft ) to clean up our Group Policy strategy. The problem is that the previous Group Policy administrator had no strategy. As a result there are dozens of Group Policy objects (GPOs) that go nowhere. I mean it is like a visit to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California. You know, that ghost house that has all

Hey, Scripting Guy! Do you ever wonder how some people ever get their jobs? We had a guy who was hired to organize our Group Policy implementation. The person was a loser. I mean, I do not think he could even spell Group Policy. Needless to say, the whole thing has morphed into some kind of Salvador Dali Space Elephant that bears little resemblance to the original plan. I know you wrote a book on Active Directory design a few years ago, and I would love to hire you to come straighten this mess out,

How Can I Return File Names of Files Created in Less Than an Hour from the Current Time? Hey, Scripting Guy! I am attempting to write a script that looks at the creation dates of all files in a certain directory. If the files were created less than an hour from the current time, the script will return those file names. The script will be a recurring script running every hour. I read the script article concerning the datediff function; however, I am not sure how to compare the objFile.CreationDate