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September 30, 2004Sep 30, 200409/30/04Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m looking for a script that can get the memberships of two different groups, compare them, and then write out the differences. Can you help?— LS
Hey, LS. When we received your question a week or so ago we thought,
September 29, 2004Sep 29, 200409/29/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell which service packs have been installed on my computers?— FR
Hey, FR. That’s a very good question; as you know better than we do, in this day and age it’s really important to make sure all your computers have the latest service pack,
September 28, 2004Sep 28, 200409/28/04Hey, Scripting Guy! In Device Manager, any time a device isn’t working that device is marked with a yellow exclamation mark. How can I use a script to get a list of the devices that aren’t working?
— OL
Hey, OL.
September 27, 2004Sep 27, 200409/27/04Hey, Scripting Guy! If I have the PID, is there a way to kill a process using a script?— JV
Hey, JV. You bet there is. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the acronym, PID is short for Process Identifier,
September 24, 2004Sep 24, 200409/24/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How do I get a list of the Exchange servers (msExchHomeServerName) assigned to the users in an OU?
— BG
Hey, BG. As you probably already figured out, you have two issues: you need to get a list of all the users in an OU,
September 23, 2004Sep 23, 200409/23/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How do I get multiple lines of output in a Web page using the Document.Body.InnerHTML property? I can only get one line of output on my page.
— CM
Hey, CM. Sounds like you’re creating an instance of Internet Explorer and trying to display script output in it.
September 22, 2004Sep 22, 200409/22/04Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there an easy way to manage scheduled tasks using scripts?
— RC
Hey, RC. You just had to ask that question, didn’t you? To be honest, this is not one of scripting’s strong points, and you might be more confused after hearing the answer than you were before asking the question.
September 21, 2004Sep 21, 200409/21/04Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to use WMI to determine whether a computer is a laptop or a desktop machine?
— CB
Hey, CB. You bet there is, although if you didn’t know that we have no idea how you’d figure it out on your own.
September 20, 2004Sep 20, 200409/20/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell if a computer has a DVD drive installed?
— GC
Hey, GC. No doubt you’re hoping we’ll say something like, “Why, you just use the Win32_DVD class, of course.” Unfortunately, though, we can’t say that;
September 17, 2004Sep 17, 200409/17/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How do I bind to a user account when the user is in a sub-OU? Code like this doesn’t work: LDAP://CN=Ken Meyer, OU=NA\Human Resources, DC=fabrikam, dc=com.
— RD
Hey, RD. The past few days we’ve done some lengthy answers to questions,
