Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I set an Active Directory property to NULL? I tried setting the value to an empty string (“”) but it didn’t work.-- JJ Hey, JJ. You know, it’s not like the Scripting Guys to get philosophical; one of the Scripting Guys, for example, bases his entire life on this credo: never answer the phone early on Saturday morning....
Hey, Scripting Guy! I’d like to be able to open an Excel spreadsheet, get all the information off one of the worksheets, and then save that worksheet data to a comma-separated values file. How can I do that?-- SS Hey, SS. You know, you just have to love Excel. Yes, we know, to be “cool” these days you’re supposed to say th...
Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there a way I can be notified any time a network cable gets unplugged on a computer?-- DD Hey, DD. A lot of people, when growing up, had a grandmother or an aunt or someone somewhere who had a house with a big attic, an attic overflowing with stuff. Admittedly, most of the time you had no idea what you were looking at when...
Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I create an environment variable using a script?-- OD Hey, OD. WMI is a great technology for scripting, but it has its eccentricities. For example, can you create a process using a script? Of course you can; after all, WMI’s Win32_Process class has a Create method. Can you create a service using a script? Of course you ca...
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder with a bunch of files in it. I need to move all those files; the only problem is that the files need to be moved to different folders depending on their file extensions. For example, I want all the .log files to go here, all the .bak files to go there, etc. How can I do that using a script?-- SH Hey, SH. There...
