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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether a logon script is running on a workstation or on a server? If the script is running on a server, I want to skip a portion of the script.-- RT Hey, RT. You know, a few years ago one of the Scripting Guys helped a fellow Microsoft employee set up a computer lab that this other Microsoft employee needed fo...

Hey, Scripting Guy! When I use Windows Explorer to connect to a remote computer, I can see a description of that computer in the Details pane. How can I change the description for a computer?-- GF Hey, GF. Just to make sure everyone is clear what we’re talking about, we are not talking about the Description attribute in Active Directory; instead...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I lock a workstation after five minutes of inactivity, something recommended to us by our auditors?-- NM Hey, NM. To tell you the truth, we don’t know. Locking a computer remotely can be a bit of a problem; for more information on that, take a look at one of our columns from a year ago. On top of that, you face the pr...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I verify that ADAM is installed?-- CW Hey, CW. Although former President Ronald Reagan is usually given credit for the phrase “Trust but verify,” we’ve always thought that sounded more like the sort of thing a system administrator would say: “Of course I trust you when you say you installed ADAM on that computer. I ju...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I monitor the activity of a process to see if anyone is using it?-- AJ Hey, AJ. You know, this is one time when writing the script is actually the easy part of the answer. Although there are a couple different ways to do this, we opted to periodically check the cumulative amount of processor time used by an applicatio...