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April 29, 2005Apr 29, 200504/29/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the user and computer account Description attributes each time a user logs on? I’d like the Description to indicate who logged on, and when.— GG
Hey, GG. This is actually a pretty good idea.
April 28, 2005Apr 28, 200504/28/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I purge all the print jobs on a Windows 2000 print server?— KC
Hey, KC. This is one of those questions we hate, not because we don’t have an answer for it – we do –
April 27, 2005Apr 27, 200504/27/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell if a specific Excel workbook is open and, if it isn’t, open it?— RK
Hey, RK. Every now and then we see a question and think, “We should answer this one; it’s so easy it won’t take more than a few minutes to finish the column and then we can all take a nice long lunch.” At some point you’d think we’d learn that every time we say that it turns out that the problem isn’t as easy as it first looked,
April 26, 2005Apr 26, 200504/26/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add all the users from an existing Active Directory group to a new group?— TG
Hey, TG. So you have a group (we’ll call it Group A) and you want to create an exact replica of that group (we’ll call it Group B).
April 25, 2005Apr 25, 200504/25/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I configure a computer to use a dynamically-assigned DNS Server?— JB
Hey, JB. Ah, this question brings back memories. A couple years ago the Scripting Guys were faced with this same problem, and discovered the answer entirely by accident;
April 22, 2005Apr 22, 200504/22/05Hey, Scripting Guy! Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add two blank lines between each line in a text file?— LW
Hey, LW. You know, when we wrote the Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide we included 4 or 5 examples of how you might work with text files.
April 21, 2005Apr 21, 200504/21/05Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m using a script to monitor process performance, but every time I run the script the percent processor time for all the processes comes out as 0. What am I doing wrong?— JL
Hey, JL. We’ve simplified your script a bit to better illustrate the problem you’re running into.
April 20, 2005Apr 20, 200504/20/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I pass command-line variables to an HTA when it starts?— DM
Hey, DM. Ok, we admit it: you almost had us on this one. (Not that being able to stump the Scripting Guys is particularly hard,
April 19, 2005Apr 19, 200504/19/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether the member of a group is a user, a computer, or another group?— ON
Hey, ON. Interesting question and – to tell you the truth – one we’d never really thought about. It’s easy enough to list all the members of a group;
April 18, 2005Apr 18, 200504/18/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I extract version information for a DLL or other type of file?— DM
Hey, DM. There at least two ways we know of to retrieve the version information for a file: one designed for working on the local computer and one that can work either locally or remotely.
