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How Can I Copy My Users’ Phone Number Attribute to Their Description Attribute?

December 11, 2006 Dec 11, 2006 12/11/06
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(image) 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(image) (image) (image) 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 ...

How Can I Configure an Active Directory Account So the Password Never Expires?

October 31, 2006 Oct 31, 2006 10/31/06
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I configure an Active Directory user account so that the account password never expires?-- BB(image) (image) (image) 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 ...

How Can I Bind to an Active Directory User Account Using Windows PowerShell?

June 29, 2006 Jun 29, 2006 06/29/06
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(image) 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 (image) (image) (...

How Can I Use a Script to Create a Sequential Series of User Accounts?

May 16, 2006 May 16, 2006 05/16/06
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(image) 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(image) (image) (image) Hey, RG. You know, after our last experiment went horribly, horribly ...

How Can I Distinguish Between Local Users and Domain Users?

April 13, 2006 Apr 13, 2006 04/13/06
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(image) 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(image) (image) (image) 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 ...