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The Scripting Guys Really Do Rock, Part 2 of 4

  [Disclaimer: this is a reprint of a previously published article from the TechNet Script Center FunZone. The FunZone was not migrated from our old platform. This article is printed here due to popular demand.] This is part two of a four part series of articles about using VBScript to work with the Windows Media Player object model. Part...

The Scripting Guys Really Do Rock, Part 1 of 4

[Disclaimer: this is a reprint of a previously published article from the TechNet Script Center FunZone. The FunZone was not migrated from our old platform. This article is printed here due to popular demand.] This is part one of a four part series of articles about using VBScript to work with the Windows Media Player object model. Using ...

Use PowerShell to Query Active Directory from the Console

   Summary: Learn how to query Active Directory by using Windows PowerShell without writing a script.   Hey, Scripting Guy! Occasionally I have to perform a quick query of Active Directory, but I do not want to write a complicated VBScript or Windows PowerShell script. Is there a way to use Windows PowerShell to query Active ...