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Hey, Scripting Guy! I am trying to create a bunch of users via script, but I am having problems dealing with their passwords. I do not want to give everyone the same password, and I do not want to have to manually create a hundred passwords and store them in a file, so I am nearly at a loss. I have seen some password generator programs on the Int...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I am new to scripting, but I have been tasked with creating a script anyway. What I need to do is to read in a CSV file and then perform an operation on each line in the file. I do not know what the correct cmdlet is or what action I need to use. Can you point me in the right direction?- DF Hi DF, Point you in the right direc...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a VBScript script that reads Microsoft Office Excel metadata. I would like to update the script to Windows PowerShell, but can I do this? I tried using New-Object to create the Excel.Application object but somehow it does not seem to work. What gives? I thought Windows PowerShell could do everything VBScript can do and ...

Cold. My nose is cold. My left eye opens slowly to investigate. Everything is dark. Cold and dark. "So why am I awake," I wonder seemingly to myself. No answers are forthcoming. So my right eye slowly opens to bring a modicum of assistance to the ongoing investigation. Still no answers present themselves. Where am I? What country am I in? "Cold. ...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a bunch of functions I wrote in PowerShell that I would like to use in other scripts. I am getting tired of cutting and pasting these things into various scripts over and over again. Surely there has got to be an easier way to do this! Have any ideas?- JB Hi JB, Of course, I have an idea…and don’t call me Shirley...