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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a domain group to the local Administrators group?-- SS Hey, SS. You know, people think of the Scripting Guys as striding powerfully through the world of system administration scripting, confident, almost-arrogant in the knowledge that they can meet any challenge thrown at them. We like to think of ourselves as b...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the groups in an OU?-- MK Hey, MK. You know, sometimes people ask us a question and then immediately apologize for having asked it, believing that the question is “way too easy for you guys.” In turn, that seems to imply that the Scripting Guys aren’t really guys at all but simply great masses of intellectu...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I clear the logon script path for all my users?-- TF Hey, TF. You know, during in a momentary bout of insanity one of the Scripting Guys once agreed to play his son in an Xbox college football game. “It’s really easy to play,” noted the Scripting Son, who then proceeded to provide a brief tutorial on how to run, pass,...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I return a list of all the users whose user account never expires?-- PG Hey, PG. You know, no one - not even his own mother! - has ever claimed that the Scripting Guy who writes this column is a genius. Needless to say, then, the first time he read this question he thought it said, “How can I return a list of al...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change a user’s primary group?-- AS Hey, AS. You know, one of the Scripting Guys knows how to make an incredibly rich rocky road brownie, a brownie that’s topped with melted marshmallows and walnuts and chunks of dark chocolate and all sorts of other good stuff. Now, some people might ask whether or not, in the inte...