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Hey Scripting Guy! Our previous network administrator was a slouch. He did not maintain proper backups, never reviewed event logs, and never cleaned up user folders when he deleted users in Active Directory. This last omission is particularly egregious because it has taken a lot of cleanup work to find and delete the user folders. One of the big ...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! A few months ago, you wrote a really cool Hey, Scripting Guy! post, How Can I Retrieve the Custom Properties of a Microsoft Word Document. The post illustrated how to use Windows PowerShell to read the custom properties from Microsoft Word documents. You, however, did not show how to modify the value of custom properties...

    Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a user in our finance department that asked me today about using a Windows PowerShell script to identify Microsoft Excel workbooks that have links inside them to other Microsoft Excel workbooks. Frankly, I am not exactly sure what she is talking about, but I do think it is great that she asked me about Wind...

 Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. In some respects—nay, in many respects—the weekend should not be called weekend, but rather weekbeginning. With no meetings, no presentations, no e-mail, and no phone interruptions, the weekend offers endless possibilities, unmitigated avenues for exploration, and boundless opportunities to ...

 Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. The Bradford pear trees are in bloom in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States. The small, delicate, white blossoms that grace the twisted shrub-like trees drape like pearls around the neck of a stately dowager. For a short two-week period, the Deep South is clothed in color, bringing out a hid...