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Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to do hardware inventory on all our workstations and on all our servers. I know System Center Configuration Manager can do this and a whole lot more. We actually have it budgeted for deployment next year. However, that does not help me now. We had a summer intern that went around and typed a lot of information such as m...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a simple question for you: How can I modify the footers in an Office Excel spreadsheet?- MN Hi MN, I have a simple answer for you as well. You assign a value to the appropriate footer property of the pagesetup object. If you would prefer a longer answer, read on. Today, we have a script called CreateExcelFooter.ps1 th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! When I add data to an Office Excel spreadsheet, it always seems to put stuff on the right side of the column. I would like to know how to center the contents of a column. I do not think it should be that hard, but I just cannot figure it out. - LK Hi LK, Did you try Open Sesame? I can certainly sympathize with you. It can be r...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to add some data to an Excel spreadsheet. After I have done that, I would like to add a function to the bottom that will add up all the information in the columns above that. I have seen examples of plugging data into cells, but I do not know how many rows of data I will have. Also, I am not sure how to add a function. ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Good morning. I would like to use WMI to get diagnostic information for my server. I would like to be able to do this remotely and to write the results to an Excel spreadsheet. When I am done, I would like the spreadsheet to also create a chart of the results. Is this asking too much? I have seen pieces of all this on the Scri...