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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve a list of unique users from the Security event log?-- KM Hey, KM. Before we tackle your question we should probably address a question sent in by another reader: Hey, Scripting Guy! Whatever happened to Monday? Having been gone on vacation all last week, I was combing through the Hey, Scripting Guy! ar...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I backup an event log to a text file?-- IMBDS Hey, IMBDS. You know, the Scripting Guys have dedicated their lives to helping others. (Well, OK, originally we dedicated our lives to having others help us. But when no one seemed very interested in that we changed our minds.) That means that, on those rare occasions when...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I monitor event log messages for a specific word or phrase?-- GH Hey, GH. You know, now that the 2007 Scripting Games are over (have we mentioned that the 2008 Games are just a year away?) it’s time for the Scripting Guys to rejoin the real world. Before we answer your question, however, could you give us a second to ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve information about the latest event added to an event log?-- HG Hey, HG. You know, it seems like only yesterday that someone was asking us how they could find the oldest event in an event log. And we remember how we told them that - oh, right: it was only yesterday, wasn’t it? Well, then we won’t waste any t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find the date of the oldest event in an event log?-- JL Hey, JL. You know, you just had to make a reference to “old” in your question, didn’t you? Just today one of the Scripting Guys received a letter from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). Although the letter acknowledged that this Scripting Guy w...