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Hey, Scripting Guy! We have recently enabled additional security auditing on our network, and I do not want to increase the size of those logs due to the fact that they are already huge. I do not want to turn on circular logging because I need to keep an audit trail for compliance reasons. I need to write a script that I use to check the size of ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have this problem at work. I keep finding groups in Active Directory, and I do not know why they were created or by whom. I am wondering if there is some way to search Active Directory to see who created a group. Is there an owner attribute or something that would let me know who created it? If I can find that, I could at l...

Hey, Scripting Guy! When I received my Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification several years ago, I remember the instructor jumping up and down and telling us that we were not doing our job if we do not check the event logs on a daily basis. When I got my first job as a network administrator, I did a pretty good job checking, bu...

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 write a script that increments a counter each time a particular log file gets updated?-- HJ Hey, HJ. You know, lately the Scripting Guy who writes this column has been victimized by a disturbing phenomenon: he keeps getting phone calls from machines. For the past several nights the phone has rung in the Scripting Ho...