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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I cause a user’s password to expire?-- GB Hey, GB. You know, one thing people dislike about politicians is that any time you ask them a question many politicians will give you an answer to a different question. Even worse, if you press them on that point they’ll tell you that there’s a good reason why they did that: a...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when a user last changed his or her password?-- MG Hey, MG. A long time ago one of the Scripting Guys worked at a local university. In one of the departments there it was easy to determine when a user last changed his or her password: that’s because the administrative assistant kept a list of all the users...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the attributes used by the Computer class in Active Directory?-- KP Hey, KP. Thanks for your question. In response, yes, it is true that the Kirkland Fire, the Colt League baseball team coached by one of the Scripting Guys, won the city championship this past weekend, nicely bookending the regular-season ch...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a number of OUs in our domain that have the word Servers in the OU name. How can I retrieve a list of those OUs?-- AM Hey, AM. One of the Scripting Guys has a 15-year-old son who, whenever he hears his father tell a story about the good old days, rolls his eyes and says, “You’re just one of those old guys still living...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a custom application that adds some attributes to the Active Directory schema. These attributes have hyphens in their names, and I can’t figure out how to retrieve the value of those attributes; any time I try to connect to one I get an error message. Any suggestions?-- TW Hey, TW. You know a lot of people don&rs...