Showing results for March 2008 - Page 2 of 4 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Hey, Scripting Guy! I'm trying to automate a tedious license server task. To do this, I need to loop through a text file line-by-line, grab out a user name, asset number, and license ID, and then pass those values to a batch file. How can I do all that?-- DM Hey, DM. Before we get started today is Friday, March 21, 2008 isn’t it? We wanted to do...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve looked through the entire Script Center but I can’t find an example of what I need to do: find all the .DOC files on drives C and D, but using a single WMI query. In other words, I want to write a WMI query similar to this: Where ( Drive = 'C:' or 'D:' ) and ( Extension = 'doc' ); unfortunately, though, I can’t figure out...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I manage over 300 servers in our environment. For each server I need to determine the members of the local Administrators account. It’s easy to get a list of local users and domain users that belong to the Admin account; it’s also easy to get a list of any domain groups that belong to the Administrators account. However, what ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! In PowerPoint user information is stored under the Tools menu. I would like to know if there is a way to extract this data by using a script.-- TV Hey, TV. You know, you might find this hard to believe, but the Scripting Guy who writes this column hardly ever loses anything; in fact, he’s actually pretty good about putting th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We’re trying to straighten out our Active Directory, and in order to do so, I’ve been asked to come up with a list of all the groups that have just 1 member or fewer. How can I write a script that will return this information for me?-- DR Hey, DR. Before we answer your question we thought we’d relate an email...