The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Disabled User Accounts in AD DS

September 17, 2013 Sep 17, 2013 09/17/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Easily find disabled user accounts in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) by using Windows PowerShell. (image) How can I easily use Windows PowerShell to find disabled user accounts? (image) Use the Search-ADAccount cmdlet from the Active Directory module in the RSAT tools, and specify the ...

Recursively Search Active Directory Security Groups

September 17, 2013 Sep 17, 2013 09/17/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Guest blogger, system admin Marc Carter, talks about recursively searching AD security groups with Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Marc Carter is back with us today as our guest blogger. Marc is a system administrator at the Corpus Christi Army Depot. Take it away, Marc… Like many other mid- to ...

PowerTip: Display Only Hidden Files and Folders in PowerShell

September 16, 2013 Sep 16, 2013 09/16/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display only hidden files and folders. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to display only hidden files and folders? (image) Use the –Hidden parameter from Get-ChildItem: Get-ChildItem -Hidden (image...

PowerShell Summit North America 2014 announced

September 16, 2013 Sep 16, 2013 09/16/13

ScriptingGuy1

PowerShell Summit North America 2014 will open for public registration on September 15th; we'll have some discounts available and everything is described at http://powershell.org/wp/?p=9776. We've already run through registration periods for our 2013 alumni, and for our TechLetter subscribers. But the biggest audience we have yet to reach are ...

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