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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I copy a user’s phone number to his or her description for all the users in Active Directory?-- DL Hey, DL. You know, the Scripting Guy who writes this column considers today’s column to be his all-time favorite. Why? Because while you’re at work reading this he hasn’t even gotten out of bed yet. (Or, if he has, he’s ju...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I configure an Active Directory user account so that the account password never expires?-- BB Hey, BB. Before we start we have a question for you: wouldn’t you agree that Catch-22 is one of the four greatest novels ever written? We ask that because, in his English class, the Scripting Son was recently asked to select,...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve been playing around with Windows PowerShell, and I find it interesting. However, I have a problem. I’d like to use PowerShell as a quick way to get information about an Active Directory user account, but I can’t figure out how to bind to a user account. Any suggestions?-- BW Hey, BW. As we noted a few da...

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! When using a script to return members of the local Administrators account, how can I distinguish between local users and domain users?-- KS Hey, KS. You know, many years ago there was a TV game show called What’s My Line? The premise of the show was that some person with an unusual occupation would come out on stage and a pan...