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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find out which attributes are replicated to the global catalog?-- AS Hey, AS. When people envision the future, they often foresee enormous skyscrapers, buildings so large that you might live your whole life without ever leaving them: you’ll live there, work there, go to school there, buy your groceries there, etc. (...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remove all duplicate lines from a text file?-- SW Hey, SW. You know, to be a Scripting Guy means to embark on a never-ending quest to find the ultimate solution to a given problem. (Or at least that’s what we tell our manager when he asks why we never actually seem to finish anything: “But boss, never-ending quests ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I start up and shut down a Virtual Server session?-- DW Hey, DW. One of the Scripting Guys once had a neighbor who used to say, over and over again, “You know, I think I should have a garage sale. I really should have a garage sale.” This went on for a couple of years, until the guy finally did have a garage sale. And...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I enumerate all the universal groups in Active Directory?-- MW Hey, MW. You know, we’re glad you asked this question. Any time people talk about Active Directory then tend to talk about groups as if Active Directory had only one type of group. It doesn’t. Instead, there are six types of Active Directory groups: global...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I monitor the event logs for the occurrence of a specific event?-- JP Hey, JP. Why, you use an event log monitoring script, of course. (Yes, it’s hard to believe, but they really do pay us to come up with brilliant answers like that.) OK, maybe we should be a little more specific: you use an event log monitoring scrip...