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September 30, 2005Sep 30, 200509/30/05Hey, 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 have seen.
September 29, 2005Sep 29, 200509/29/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the user logon name for a user named John Smith?— FR
Hey, FR. You know, we’d like to tell you how to determine the user logon name for a user named John Smith, but we can’t: that’s because we have a specific list of names representing the only user names we can reference in one of our sample scripts.
September 28, 2005Sep 28, 200509/28/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find all the drives mapped to \\server1\share and remap them to \\server2\share? — H T-S
Hey, H T-S. You know, not too long ago Malcolm Gladwell published a book called The Tipping Point. Loosely speaking,
September 27, 2005Sep 27, 200509/27/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I periodically refresh a Web page?— TZ
Hey, TZ. You know, the last couple of weeks have been very difficult for the Scripting Guys; after all, we were positive that one of us would be nominated to become the next Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
September 26, 2005Sep 26, 200509/26/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I access the files in the folder T:\Act and delete any files that have the string “current” somewhere in the file name?— SC
Hey, SC. We have to admit, the notion of deleting anything current has a certain appeal,
September 23, 2005Sep 23, 200509/23/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a domain group to the local Administrators group?— SS
Hey, SS. You know, people think of the Scripting Guys as striding powerfully through the world of system administration scripting, confident, almost-arrogant in the knowledge that they can meet any challenge thrown at them.
September 22, 2005Sep 22, 200509/22/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I monitor the activity of a process to see if anyone is using it?— AJ
Hey, AJ. You know, this is one time when writing the script is actually the easy part of the answer. Although there are a couple different ways to do this,
September 21, 2005Sep 21, 200509/21/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the groups in an OU?— MK
Hey, MK. You know, sometimes people ask us a question and then immediately apologize for having asked it, believing that the question is “way too easy for you guys.” In turn,
September 20, 2005Sep 20, 200509/20/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I copy column C of one worksheet to column A of a second worksheet?— JP
Hey, JP. Well, that’s easy: you just open Excel, highlight column C, press Ctrl+C, put the cursor in column A1 of the second worksheet,
September 19, 2005Sep 19, 200509/19/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I specify a particular window size for my HTA?— RN
Hey, RN. We can’t speak for Dear Abby, Ann Landers or any other daily columnist, but the Scripting Guys are always on the lookout for a question that can be answered using a single line of code.
