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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the objects that have been added to Active Directory since a specified date?-- KR Hey, KR. First of all we’d like to apologize if our answer here is still a little soggy. No doubt you’ve seen cartoons where someone receives a package in the mail, they hear it ticking and - suspecting the worse - th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a user to a group, but only if that user is a member of the IT department?-- JV Hey, JV. You know, this is your lucky day: not only are we going to show you how you can add a specified user to a group (assuming, of course, that this user is a member of the IT department), but we’re also going to show you a way t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the sub-OUs in an OU? That includes any OUs that might be in those sub-OUs.-- JE Hey, JE. If you’re the least bit familiar with this column then you know that we Scripting Guys love to answer questions that involve searching Active Directory. That’s because we never bother to write detailed explanations of ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use alternate credentials when searching Active Directory?-- PT Hey, PT. So what’s the big idea here? Devoted readers of this column (both of them) know that we usually love tackling questions where the answer involves searching Active Directory. Why? That’s easy: because we don’t really answer thos...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use wildcards to get a list of all the groups whose name starts with G-S-Group?-- JD Hey, JD. It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and one of the Scripting Guys is headed out of town as soon as he finishes his Hey, Scripting Guy! column. And what a coincidence: he happened to pick a question about searching Active...