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Hey, 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, a unique ID number assigned to a process when it gets created. (Well, temporarily unique: as soon as the process is destroyed, the nu...

Hey, 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, and then you need to figure out which Exchange server they’ve been assigned. Believe it or not, this is prob...

Hey, 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. And we’re willing to bet you’re using a script similar to this: In th...

Hey, 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. But here goes. The problem we have here is that ...

Hey, 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. It turns out there’s a goofy little WMI class called Win32_SystemEnclosure, and the ChassisTypes property can tell yo...