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Hey, Scripting Guy! I’d like to add an Active Directory group to a second group, but only for an hour; after an hour, I’d like remove that group from the second group. Can I do that with a script?-- JW Hey, JW. Well, this is definitely one of the more interesting questions we’ve received. As far as we know, there’s no way to put a time limit on ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the domains in a forest?-- NS Hey, NS. Any time you want information about Active Directory your best bet is to go right to the source: simply ask Active Directory to provide you with this information. Here’s a sample script that binds to the global catalog for the domain Fabrikam.com and searches ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I count the number of times a user has logged on to a computer?-- DE Hey, DE. How can you count the number of times a user has logged on to a computer? Good question and, ultimately, the answer might be: you can’t. But let’s at least explore some possible solutions and see if any of them will help. First of all, let’s...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I gather the names of all the computers in my domain that are running Windows Server 2003?-- AS Hey, AS. When we choose questions to answer for this column, we try to take questions from different areas of scripting. That does two things for us: it keeps us from being the answers-only-questions-about-say-scripting-Act...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to move a computer account from one OU to another; however, I don’t know which OU the computer account is currently in. Any advice?-- AA Hey, AA. You know, one thing that marks all the great advice columns - Dear Abby; Ann Landers; Hey, Scripting Guy! - is the fact that, over time, these columns tend to give the same a...