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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Add a User to Multiple Groups?

July 29, 2009 Jul 29, 2009 07/29/09

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey Scripting Guy! It seems that I can never find what I need anymore. I am looking for a Windows PowerShell script that will add a user to multiple groups. The user and the group are in the same organizational unit, and I do not want to have to run the same script multiple times to add a user to multiple groups. It should be easy to ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Remove All Group Members in Active Directory?

July 28, 2009 Jul 28, 2009 07/28/09

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey Scripting Guy! I have several groups created in Active Directory whose membership has changed dramatically. Rather than go through a long list of users and try to manually clean up the list, I would like to just delete all the users from the group so that I can later add the newly approved members to the group. I have checked ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Identify All Local Users, Groups, and Services on a Local Computer?

March 26, 2009 Mar 26, 2009 03/26/09

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have several computers that seem to be identical, but they act like they are different. I mean, the same person set the computers up, so I imagine he followed the checklist and the machines should therefore be the same. But something weird is going on. What I need is a script that will tell me which services are...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create More Than One User, Assign Attribute Values, and Assign the Users to Groups?

March 24, 2009 Mar 24, 2009 03/24/09

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I enjoyed your article yesterday about creating a local user account. However, for my purposes I need to be able to create more than one user. Also I would like to be able to assign values to attributes such as the description. If it is not asking too much, I would also like to be able to assign the user to a ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I List the Members of a Domain Group That Belongs to the Local Administrators Group?

March 20, 2008 Mar 20, 2008 03/20/08

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I manage over 300 servers in our environment. For each server I need to determine the members of the local Administrators account. It’s easy to get a list of local users and domain users that belong to the Admin account; it’s also easy to get a list of any domain groups that belong to the Administrators ...

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