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How Can I Determine When a User Last Changed His or Her Password?

July 5, 2005 Jul 5, 2005 07/5/05
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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 ...

How Can I Purge All the Print Jobs on a Windows 2000 Print Server?

April 28, 2005 Apr 28, 2005 04/28/05
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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 ...

How Can I Disable the Guest Account on a Computer?

February 10, 2005 Feb 10, 2005 02/10/05
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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 ...

How Can I Determine Whether or Not a Group Has Any Members?

February 3, 2005 Feb 3, 2005 02/3/05
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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 ...

How Can I Prevent a Local User From Changing His or Her Password?

December 2, 2004 Dec 2, 2004 12/2/04
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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 ...