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December 22, 2004Dec 22, 200412/22/04Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a series of Word files. I would like to open each of these files and save them as plain-text files. Is there a way to do that using a script?— CG
Hey, CG. Yes, you can do this quite easily with a script;
December 21, 2004Dec 21, 200412/21/04Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to tell whether an Active Directory group is a security group or a distribution group?— AW
Hey, AW. As a matter of fact, there is; this script will tell you what type of group you’re dealing with:Set objGroup = GetObject _
(“LDAP://cn=Finance Managers,
December 20, 2004Dec 20, 200412/20/04Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there an easy way to find out what programs have been downloaded for Internet Explorer (the items that are in the folder C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files)? I can use a script to get the executable file names and dependent files,
December 17, 2004Dec 17, 200412/17/04Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m using the WMI class Win32_Directory to get information about folders on a computer. It works great, except when there’s an apostrophe in the folder name; then, it doesn’t work at all. How can I use WMI to connect to folders that have apostrophes in their names?—
December 16, 2004Dec 16, 200412/16/04Hey, Scripting Guy! Is it possible to get a list of all the domain controllers in my domain?— KT
Hey, KT. As a matter of fact, there are at least two ways to get a list of all domain controllers in your domain.
December 15, 2004Dec 15, 200412/15/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I grab a URL from the clipboard and then open that Web site in a browser?— CL
Hey, CL. Interesting question, or, should we say, questions. That’s because there’s really two issues here. The first one is easy: can I use a script to open a specified Web site?
December 14, 2004Dec 14, 200412/14/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I rename an Active Directory group?— CL
Hey, CL. This is actually pretty easy; as you’ll see, it only takes two lines of code. It’s not a hard problem, it’s just a little bit tricky. That’s because ADSI (at least when it comes to dealing with Active Directory) does not have a Rename method.
December 13, 2004Dec 13, 200412/13/04Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there a way for me to log on to a computer using a regular user account, but then run a script as a domain administrator?— WW
Hey, WW. In answer to your question, yes, both WMI and ADSI provide a way for you to run a script under alternate security credentials;
December 10, 2004Dec 10, 200412/10/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I map drives in a logon script based on a security group each user belong to?— RO
Hey, RO. Considering the fact that this question has been asked by approximately 3,755,392 of our readers – oops,
December 9, 2004Dec 9, 200412/9/04Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder that contains a bunch of log files. I would like to rename each file based on the date the file was created; for example, if a file was created on December 1, 2004, I’d like to rename it 20041201.log.
