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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder full of text files that have user contact information. I think these files were produced by an old database backup. I have to create a phone directory from these files; I thought about trying to read each file and copy just the fourth line from each of the files. Unfortunately, in some of the files the phone num...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I am trying to chase down a problem I have on my computer. Every so often, it just quits responding. I think it may be trying to talk to Elvis or commune with E.T. Perhaps if I point my finger and say, "E.T. gone home" in a raspy drone-like voice it would cease and desist all illogical activities and begin to listen to me. Any...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have recently enabled additional security auditing on our network, and I do not want to increase the size of those logs due to the fact that they are already huge. I do not want to turn on circular logging because I need to keep an audit trail for compliance reasons. I need to write a script that I use to check the size of ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have this problem at work. I keep finding groups in Active Directory, and I do not know why they were created or by whom. I am wondering if there is some way to search Active Directory to see who created a group. Is there an owner attribute or something that would let me know who created it? If I can find that, I could at l...

Hey, Scripting Guy! When I received my Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification several years ago, I remember the instructor jumping up and down and telling us that we were not doing our job if we do not check the event logs on a daily basis. When I got my first job as a network administrator, I did a pretty good job checking, bu...