Scripting Blog [archived]

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September 2005 - Scripting Blog [archived]

How Can I Determine if a Particular Patch is Installed?

September 30, 2005 Sep 30, 2005 09/30/05
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use a script to determine if a particular patch has been installed?-- GM(image) (image) (image) Hey, GM. You know, not too long ago this would have been a question we might have “accidentally” dropped in the wastebasket and pretended never to have seen. Why? Well, back in the old days the only way ...

How Can I Determine the Logon Name for a User?

September 29, 2005 Sep 29, 2005 09/29/05
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the user logon name for a user named John Smith?-- FR(image) (image) (image) Hey, FR. You know, we’d like to tell you how to determine the user logon name for a user named John Smith, but we can’t: that’s because we have a specific list of names representing the only user names we can ...

How Can I Find All the Drives Mapped to a Share and Remap Them?

September 28, 2005 Sep 28, 2005 09/28/05
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find all the drives mapped to \\server1\share and remap them to \\server2\share? -- H T-S(image) (image) (image) Hey, H T-S. You know, not too long ago Malcolm Gladwell published a book called The Tipping Point. Loosely speaking, the book posited that something could be ignored for the longest time, at...

How Can I Delete Specific Files in a Specific Folder?

September 26, 2005 Sep 26, 2005 09/26/05
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I access the files in the folder T:\Act and delete any files that have the string “current” somewhere in the file name?-- SC(image) (image) (image) Hey, SC. We have to admit, the notion of deleting anything current has a certain appeal, doesn’t it? Well, not for the Scripting Guys, of course; after...