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Hey, Scripting Guy! As part of our Sarbanes-Oxley requirements I need to get a list of all my Active Directory users, along with the date that their account was created and the last time their password was changed. How can I get a list like that?-- DB Hey, DB. You know, this past weekend the Scripting Guy who writes this column was helping out a...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I move a computer from an unknown OU into a known OU?-- DB Hey, DB. You know, a lot of people take a look at system administration scripting and think, “Well, it might be useful, but it sounds kind of boring.” After all, clearing event logs and changing user passwords are worthwhile endeavors, but they don’t compare t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! For purposes of testing, I often need to create multiple user accounts like this: pgeorge01, pgeorge02, etc. How can I write a script that automatically creates the next account in the sequence; that is, pgeorge03?-- RG Hey, RG. You know, after our last experiment went horribly, horribly wrong, we vowed never to get involved ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the users who have an alternate recipient (altRecipient)?-- SA Hey, SA. You know, one of the great things about being a Scripting Guy is that we don’t ever have to know what we’re talking about; all we do have to know is how to write a script that does whatever it is you ask us to do and everyone’s...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I count the number of computers in a domain?-- TN Hey, TN. Here’s a true story for you. About 5 years ago, when one of the Scripting Guys first started at Microsoft, his group here (which might not be the most technically-savvy group at the company) needed to get a count of all our computers. How did they do that? Why...