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August 31, 2005Aug 31, 200508/31/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change a user’s primary group?— AS
Hey, AS. You know, one of the Scripting Guys knows how to make an incredibly rich rocky road brownie, a brownie that’s topped with melted marshmallows and walnuts and chunks of dark chocolate and all sorts of other good stuff.
August 30, 2005Aug 30, 200508/30/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I increment the last line in a text file; that is, if the last line is 1, indicating we’ve done one backup, I need to increment it to 2, indicating that we’ve now done a second backup.—
August 29, 2005Aug 29, 200508/29/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the users whose passwords never expire?— NW
Hey, NW. As you probably know, Internet gambling is illegal in the USA. That’s too bad, because if it wasn’t we’d be willing to bet $10 that the answer to your question will be this: search Active Directory.
August 26, 2005Aug 26, 200508/26/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the 20 largest files on a computer?— PW
Hey, PW. Having recently returned from a vacation in Europe, the Scripting Guy who writes this column now understands that there are different ways to do things.
August 25, 2005Aug 25, 200508/25/05
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find all the users with remote access permissions; that is, all those with the Dial-In or VPN property set to Allow?
— RC
Hey, RC. You know, it seems like people are always looking for something: true love,
August 24, 2005Aug 24, 200508/24/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when the last patch from Windows Update was applied?— JP
Hey, JP. You know, you picked a good time to ask this question; that’s because we just published a Tales from the Script column that introduces scripters to the Windows Update object model,
August 23, 2005Aug 23, 200508/23/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I run a script to unhide all the files in a folder?— GA
Hey, GA. You know, when one of the Scripting Guys was a bit younger he and the other kids in his neighborhood spent countless hours playing variations on hide-and-seek;
August 22, 2005Aug 22, 200508/22/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find out which attributes are replicated to the global catalog?— AS
Hey, AS. When people envision the future, they often foresee enormous skyscrapers, buildings so large that you might live your whole life without ever leaving them: you’ll live there,
August 19, 2005Aug 19, 200508/19/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remove all duplicate lines from a text file?— SW
Hey, SW. You know, to be a Scripting Guy means to embark on a never-ending quest to find the ultimate solution to a given problem. (Or at least that’s what we tell our manager when he asks why we never actually seem to finish anything: “But boss,
August 18, 2005Aug 18, 200508/18/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I start up and shut down a Virtual Server session?— DW
Hey, DW. One of the Scripting Guys once had a neighbor who used to say, over and over again, “You know, I think I should have a garage sale.
