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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when an Active Directory user account will expire?-- JK Hey, JK. By the way, please accept our apologies for hiding under the desk and pretending we weren’t in when your question arrived; we always get a little nervous any time we get questions involving dates and Active Directory. That’s because Active Di...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I write a script that will automatically share all the local printers on a computer?-- CD Hey, CD. You know, when we redid the Hey, Scripting Guy! archive we created a new category devoted exclusively to printing. When we started to fill out the archive pages, however, we discovered - much to our surprise - that we ha...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete an Active Directory object that contains other objects?-- TS Hey, TS. Ah, yes, the dreaded “objects that contain other objects” dilemma. Is there a way to delete an Active Directory object that contains other objects? Let’s see if we can find one. For those of you new to Active Directory scripting, deleting a...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the user information in Microsoft Office to match the user’s name as stored in Active Directory?-- SM Hey, SM. Back in the days when one of the Scripting Guys worked for a local university, every document in one department of 300+ users appeared to have been created by the same person; that’s because a single...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell which version of the .NET Framework is installed on a computer?-- MW Hey, MW. You know, every now and then people say to us, “Wow, you guys write a daily column about system administration scripting; you must be really smart.” We wish. The truth is, we write a daily column about system administration because we...