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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the users whose passwords never expire?-- NW Hey, NW. As you probably know, Internet gambling is illegal in the USA. That’s too bad, because if it wasn’t we’d be willing to bet $10 that the answer to your question will be this: search Active Directory. And as much as we hate to say “We told you so,...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find out which attributes are replicated to the global catalog?-- AS Hey, AS. When people envision the future, they often foresee enormous skyscrapers, buildings so large that you might live your whole life without ever leaving them: you’ll live there, work there, go to school there, buy your groceries there, etc. (...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I enumerate all the universal groups in Active Directory?-- MW Hey, MW. You know, we’re glad you asked this question. Any time people talk about Active Directory then tend to talk about groups as if Active Directory had only one type of group. It doesn’t. Instead, there are six types of Active Directory groups: global...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when an Active Directory user account will expire?-- JK Hey, JK. By the way, please accept our apologies for hiding under the desk and pretending we weren’t in when your question arrived; we always get a little nervous any time we get questions involving dates and Active Directory. That’s because Active Di...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete an Active Directory object that contains other objects?-- TS Hey, TS. Ah, yes, the dreaded “objects that contain other objects” dilemma. Is there a way to delete an Active Directory object that contains other objects? Let’s see if we can find one. For those of you new to Active Directory scripting, deleting a...