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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I verify that a certain folder (C:\TestLog) has files in it and, if so, delete all those files?-- DC Hey, DC. Before we begin we should point out that - when using WMI - it doesn’t matter whether or not a folder has any files in it: you can still tell WMI to delete all the files in that folder. If no such files exist ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I configure the Hide From Exchange Address Lists property for all the contacts in a domain?-- MM Hey, MM. You know what the say: you can run, but you can’t hide (especially from Microsoft Exchange!). But what they forgot to add is that you can hide, as long as you’ve set the value of the MSExchHideFromAddressLists att...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I take the last line in a group of text files and paste that information into a Word document?-- JV Hey, JV. You know, one thing we try to do in this column is focus on practical system administration tasks. We’ll deviate from that focus every now and then, but for the most part we try to address questions we feel a l...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the users in an NT 4.0 domain, along with their description and logon script path?-- HH Hey, HH. Ah, yes NT 4.0. Windows NT 4.0 reminds us of dandelions: it doesn’t matter whether you like dandelions or not, there’s simply no way to get rid of them. The same is true of NT 4.0. Regardless of what people thin...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I check to see if a user is in both group A and group B and, if so, add that user to Group C?-- DH Hey, DH. Good heavens, how are we supposed to know that?!? Sheesh. Sorry; we just always wanted to say that. Now that we have that out of our system, here’s a sample script that checks to see if Ken Myer belongs to both ...