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Hey, Scripting Guy! Given a distinguished name, how can I determine the “topmost” OU?-- HF Hey, HF. You know, as he was driving in to work this morning, the Scripting Guy who writes this column heard an advertisement for a series of adult education courses being offered by a local community college. As you might expect, this commercial pointed o...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have an HTA we use for data input. In one of the text boxes our users are only supposed to type numbers. How can I prevent users from typing anything except numbers in that text box?-- KV Hey, KV. You know that’s a pretty good question: is there a way to prevent users from typing anything except numbers into a text box? An...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the upcoming meetings that have been scheduled by a specific person (namely, my manager)?-- GH Hey, GH. Before we tackle this question we’d like to reassure anyone who looked out their window recently and saw pigs flying; that’s to be expected. Likewise, any of our readers who happen to be resident...

Hey, Scripting Guy! If I have a bunch of duplicate processes, how can I delete all of them except for the oldest one?-- IR Hey, IR. We apologize for the delay in answering this question. Originally we thought it would be cute if we could get Peter Costantini, the oldest living Scripting Guy, to answer this; after all, we figured Peter would get ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I saw your column on replacing text in a text file, and that’s almost the solution I’m looking for. However, the text I need to replace is the single quote mark, and I can’t figure out how to do that. How do I replace single quote marks in a text file?-- JB Hey, JB. You know, this is shaping up to be another very hectic day f...