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June 2009 - Page 7 of 8 - Scripting Blog

Hey, Scripting Guy! Scripting Games Event 1 Details (Beginner and Advanced)

June 7, 2009 Jun 7, 2009 06/7/09
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Beginner Event 1: The 100-meter dash In the 100-meter dash, you will be given the finish times of our runners. You will be asked to sort the times and indicate the gold, silver, and bronze winners. Event Scenario Working with data is the bread and butter of the IT pro. Many applications produce unformatted data—or seemingly ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (6/5/09)

June 5, 2009 Jun 5, 2009 06/5/09
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How Can I Create Unique User Permissions on Windows Server 2003 with Group Policy? Hey, Scripting Guy! We are using Windows Server 2003 R2. I want to create a Group Policy policy setting for individual users according to their permission on folders. Currently, we are just using a folder share to all users. We have almost 40 users and ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Collect System Restore Information in Windows Vista?

June 3, 2009 Jun 3, 2009 06/3/09
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Hey, Scripting Guy! I was looking at System Restore on my Windows Vista computer, and I had an idea. Wouldn’t it be great if I could script the collection of information for System Restore? I would like it to tell me how much disk space is being consumed, as well as when it is scheduled to run. I think you should write a script that will ...