Showing archive results for January 2005

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine which version of Word is installed on a computer?-- RR Hey, RR. Turns out that this is a trickier question than you might expect. That’s because WMI does only a so-so job of retrieving information about the software installed on a computer. In theory, you can use a script like this one to get back version ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I share a folder on a remote computer?-- RS Hey, RS. One of the great things about WMI is the fact that - with one or two fairly obscure exceptions - anything you can do on the local computer you can also do on a remote computer. This is the big advantage scripting has over command line tools; a number of command line...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to tell the date that an Active Directory user account was created?-- DD Hey, DD. And thanks: between the work that piled up over the holidays, the upcoming Scripting Week 2, and a nasty flu bug that’s going around, it’s nice to have a question that can be answered with just two lines of code. That’s right: t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete a computer account from Active Directory, but provide a Yes/No prompt to the user before the account is actually deleted?-- NM Hey, NM. Let’s start by showing you how to delete a computer account from Active Directory. But don’t worry; that won’t take long. In fact, it only takes two lines of code:Set objComp...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I read only the last record written to an event log? In other words, what is the WMI equivalent to the SQL statement Select Top 1?-- KM Hey, KM. Well, as it turns out WMI doesn’t have an equivalent to the Select Top command; for better or worse, the WMI Query Language (WQL) has only a small subset of the commands foun...