Showing tag results for Scripting Guy!

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the date and time that a process started?-- BM Hey, BM. We’ve got good news for you: not only do we have an answer to your question, but we’re not going to bore everyone with any more stories regarding our Colt League All-Star team. Nope, we’re no longer haunted by the fact that, in a tie game, we had the ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve information about the printer driver used by a specific printer?-- RW Hey, RW. Did you say something? Oh, right: printer drivers. You’ll have to excuse us today: the Scripting Guys (well, one of them anyway) are in mourning. That’s because the Colt League All-Star team he helped coached finished third in th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when an Active Directory user account will expire?-- JK Hey, JK. By the way, please accept our apologies for hiding under the desk and pretending we weren’t in when your question arrived; we always get a little nervous any time we get questions involving dates and Active Directory. That’s because Active Di...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I write a script that will automatically share all the local printers on a computer?-- CD Hey, CD. You know, when we redid the Hey, Scripting Guy! archive we created a new category devoted exclusively to printing. When we started to fill out the archive pages, however, we discovered - much to our surprise - that we ha...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete an Active Directory object that contains other objects?-- TS Hey, TS. Ah, yes, the dreaded “objects that contain other objects” dilemma. Is there a way to delete an Active Directory object that contains other objects? Let’s see if we can find one. For those of you new to Active Directory scripting, deleting a...