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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when a user last changed his or her password?-- MG Hey, MG. A long time ago one of the Scripting Guys worked at a local university. In one of the departments there it was easy to determine when a user last changed his or her password: that’s because the administrative assistant kept a list of all the users...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I purge all the print jobs on a Windows 2000 print server?-- KC Hey, KC. This is one of those questions we hate, not because we don’t have an answer for it - we do - but because we have to temporarily abandon one of the core tenets of the Scripting Guy Way of Life. That tenet - just a second while we blow the dust off...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine whether or not the Guest account is enabled on a computer and, if it is, disable it?-- PR Hey, PR. At last: a question for which there is a very simple, very straightforward answer. This isn’t to minimize the importance of the task: in general, it’s highly recommended that you disable the Guest account on ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I check a computer and find out whether the Remote Desktop Users group has any members?-- ET Hey, ET. Somewhat surprisingly, ADSI doesn’t have any sort of NumberOfMembers property, a property that could tell you - at a glance - how many members are in a group. But that’s all right, because we can simply iterate throug...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I configure a local user account so that the user can’t change his or her password?-- DC Hey, DC. The secret here lies in the mysterious userFlags attribute. We’ll show you how to set a user account so that the user can’t change his or her password, then we’ll fill you in on some of the other local user account proper...