The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

Remediate Active Directory Members that Don't Support LVR

April 22, 2014 Apr 22, 2014 04/22/14

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Ian Farr talks about using Windows PowerShell to find and remediate Active Directory members that don’t support linked-value replication. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we welcome back Microsoft PFE, Ian Farr, as our guest blogger. To read more of Ian's previous guest posts, see these Hey, Scripting Guy...

Weekend Scripter: Who are the Administrators?

December 8, 2013 Dec 8, 2013 12/8/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Guest blogger, Bill Stewart, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find administrators. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Hello everyone. It is the weekend, and guest blogger, Bill Stewart is going to share his time and knowledge today. Bill is a scripting guru and a moderator for the Official Scripting Guys Forum... As ...

The Admin’s First Steps: Local Group Membership

October 27, 2013 Oct 27, 2013 10/27/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to discover the membership of local groups. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting using Windows PowerShell to administer my systems, and I’ve been told I need to check the membership of local groups on all my servers. How can I do that? — AK (image...

PowerTip: Find Members of Critical Groups with PowerShell

October 20, 2013 Oct 20, 2013 10/20/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the members of critical groups. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to track who is a member of my Domain Admins group? (image) Use Get-ADGroupMember, and add as many groups as you want to the list by using the SamAccountName for the groups: "...

The Admin’s First Steps: Empty Groups

October 20, 2013 Oct 20, 2013 10/20/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Richard Siddaway talks about using Windows PowerShell to discover Active Directory groups that have no members. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve just starting using Windows PowerShell to administer my systems, and I’ve been told I need to audit our Active Directory to discover any empty groups. How can I do that? &...

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