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  Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I return a list of all the users whose user account never expires?-- PG Hey, PG. You know, no one - not even his own mother! - has ever claimed that the Scripting Guy who writes this column is a genius. Needless to say, then, the first time he read this question he thought it said, “How can I return a list of al...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change a user’s primary group?-- AS Hey, AS. You know, one of the Scripting Guys knows how to make an incredibly rich rocky road brownie, a brownie that’s topped with melted marshmallows and walnuts and chunks of dark chocolate and all sorts of other good stuff. Now, some people might ask whether or not, in the inte...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the users whose passwords never expire?-- NW Hey, NW. As you probably know, Internet gambling is illegal in the USA. That’s too bad, because if it wasn’t we’d be willing to bet $10 that the answer to your question will be this: search Active Directory. And as much as we hate to say “We told you so,...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when an Active Directory user account will expire?-- JK Hey, JK. By the way, please accept our apologies for hiding under the desk and pretending we weren’t in when your question arrived; we always get a little nervous any time we get questions involving dates and Active Directory. That’s because Active Di...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I cause a user’s password to expire?-- GB Hey, GB. You know, one thing people dislike about politicians is that any time you ask them a question many politicians will give you an answer to a different question. Even worse, if you press them on that point they’ll tell you that there’s a good reason why they did that: a...