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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Map a Drive Based on the Computer’s Subnet?

March 4, 2008 Mar 4, 2008 03/4/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a CAD staff that occasionally travels between sites. What I would like to do, in a logon script, is map a set of drives based on their current location, that is, their current subnet. I need the script to first check and see if the drives are already mapped; if so then the script should just leave the ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change a File That’s Found in a Folder and in All Its Top-Level Subfolders?

March 3, 2008 Mar 3, 2008 03/3/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need a little help. I have one top folder with many subfolders ; the subfolders are all top-level subfolders like C:\Scripts\Folder1 and C:\Scripts\Folder2. In each subfolder I have a text file with the same name. I need to open that text file in each folder and change a couple of characters. Is there any way ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Move Files Based on a Portion of the File Name?

February 28, 2008 Feb 28, 2008 02/28/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have tens of thousands of files that all have a file name that includes a number bounded by two underscore characters; for example, P_19_L00.jpg. I need to figure out which number is embedded in a file name, then move that file to a folder named after that number. In this case, that means moving P_19_L00.jpg to ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Enable Users to Change File Extensions Using the SendTo Command?

February 19, 2008 Feb 19, 2008 02/19/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! Here’s what I would like to do. I would like to put a script in the SendTo folder that would enable a user to easily change the file extension for a file. (Typically our users hide the file extensions, which makes it difficult for them to change those extensions when they need to.) However, I haven’t ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create a Disk Quota That Gives the User Unlimited Disk Space?

January 28, 2008 Jan 28, 2008 01/28/08
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! Your article "Managing Disk Quotas in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP" is quite good but it leaves out one important detail: how can you specify an unlimited disk quota for a user?-- CA(image) (image) (image) Hey, CA. You know, it’s funny. When we received this question, we had no idea what the answer was. ...