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

(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?

(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?

(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 ...