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October 31, 2005Oct 31, 200510/31/05Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there an alternative to the Wscript.Shell command for HTAs? I need to run an application and specify the file to open.— DL
Hey, DL. Yes, we do know of an alternative to the Wscript.Shell command that will work in HTAs,
October 28, 2005Oct 28, 200510/28/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I query the Active Directory schema for an attribute’s data type and whether it is single-valued or multi-valued?— MS
Hey, MS. You know, this turned out to be one of those questions that drive us crazy: after all,
October 27, 2005Oct 27, 200510/27/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine which drives on a computer are mapped to network shares?— CP
Hey, CP. OK, you better sit down, because what we’re about to say will shock you: if you want to determine which drives on a computer are mapped to network shares,
October 26, 2005Oct 26, 200510/26/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine if an OU has the Group Policy property Block Policy Inheritance box checked?— PP
Hey, PP. You know, sometimes you wait all your life for a situation to arise, and then it never arises.
October 25, 2005Oct 25, 200510/25/05Hey, Scripting Guy! Each day we have a program that creates a file with a name similar to this: backup_20050607.bak. How can I delete the previous day’s file?— JC
Hey, JC. Hmmm, a script that goes out and automatically deletes whatever happened the day before.
October 24, 2005Oct 24, 200510/24/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remove a group from the local Administrators group?— SB
Hey, SB. One of the Scripting Guys has very vague memories of an old TV show called Branded, in which the hero (played by Chuck Connors) was accused of cowardice and then dishonorably discharged from the US Cavalry.
October 21, 2005Oct 21, 200510/21/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I read a text file on a remote computer?— BM
Hey, BM. We have a confession to make: we’re using you and your question for our own nefarious purposes. Earlier this week we answered a question about reading the last line in a group of text files;
October 20, 2005Oct 20, 200510/20/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I verify that a certain folder (C:\TestLog) has files in it and, if so, delete all those files?— DC
Hey, DC. Before we begin we should point out that – when using WMI – it doesn’t matter whether or not a folder has any files in it: you can still tell WMI to delete all the files in that folder.
October 19, 2005Oct 19, 200510/19/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I configure the Hide From Exchange Address Lists property for all the contacts in a domain?— MM
Hey, MM. You know what the say: you can run, but you can’t hide (especially from Microsoft Exchange!). But what they forgot to add is that you can hide,
October 18, 2005Oct 18, 200510/18/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I take the last line in a group of text files and paste that information into a Word document?— JV
Hey, JV. You know, one thing we try to do in this column is focus on practical system administration tasks.
