Showing results for January 2009 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Hey, Scripting Guy! I live and I die by my Office Outlook calendar. But Office Outlook sometimes seems to be rather slow when I am logging on first thing in the morning. When I have to boot up my laptop, log on to the network, start Office Outlook, and wait for five minutes just to see what my appointments are, it seems to be a bit much. I wish t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! My users seem to think that once they delete an e-mail message, it is gone. Most do not have the concept of going and emptying their Deleted Items folder. Using Windows PowerShell on Exchange, I can easily obtain a report from the server about how much space this stuff is taking up. I would like a script the users can run that...

Hey, Scripting Guy! The Pointy Headed Boss (PHB) just got back from some kind of stupid management summit, and he has decided he needs to track our work activities more closely. As a result, we now have to give him a weekly progress report. Seems to me that, if he would pay attention, he would know what we do, but then that would require effort o...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find out how many e-mail messages are in my Junk folder. I found a script that does this with VBScript, but I need to be able to do it in Windows PowerShell. I do not want to delete the junk e-mail, because there are times when it is not junk. But because Office Outlook automatically moves e-mail to the Junk folder, ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need some help. There is a stupid process that launches every time I turn on my computer. I cannot find where it is starting from. I have looked in all the usual places, but I can't find it. This process was installed when I installed some software that I use only about once a month. I do not need this dumb process starting ...