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February 2009 - Page 3 of 4 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can Get a List of All My Orphaned Group Policy Objects?

February 10, 2009 Feb 10, 2009 02/10/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem. I have been elected, given the honor, granted the opportunity to excel (whatever management euphemism you wish to use to describe giving me more work) to clean up our Group Policy strategy. The problem is that the previous Group Policy administrator had no strategy. As a result there are dozens of...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I List All Group Policy Objects in a Domain?

February 9, 2009 Feb 9, 2009 02/9/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! Do you ever wonder how some people ever get their jobs? We had a guy who was hired to organize our Group Policy implementation. The person was a loser. I mean, I do not think he could even spell Group Policy. Needless to say, the whole thing has morphed into some kind of Salvador Dali Space Elephant that bears ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Hide My Desktop Wallpaper?

February 5, 2009 Feb 5, 2009 02/5/09
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(image) I give a lot of presentations, and the background picture of my baby alpaca, while fascinating to me, probably does not have the same level of attraction to my clients. I know I can mouse around and change the desktop picture to some bland color, but I prefer to run a script and make the change because I can have the same script ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Rename All of the Pictures in a Folder?

February 4, 2009 Feb 4, 2009 02/4/09
ScriptingGuy1
(image) My scripting husband travels a great deal with his job, and he takes these really cool pictures. Unfortunately, he is somewhat lazy about downloading the pictures from the camera. As a result, we have pictures from Hawaii that are named Phoenix_Desert_05.jpg. Obviously, I know the difference between a desert and a beach, but it is ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Rename All Files in a Folder?

February 3, 2009 Feb 3, 2009 02/3/09
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(image) I want to use SharePoint for our company’s script library, but it will not allow us to upload a VBScript file. It accepts PS1 files just fine, but we still have quite a few VBScripts and we need to keep a central repository of them. We have decided to rename them from .vbs files to .txt files so that we can keep them in SharePoint...