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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when a user last changed his or her password?-- MG Hey, MG. A long time ago one of the Scripting Guys worked at a local university. In one of the departments there it was easy to determine when a user last changed his or her password: that’s because the administrative assistant kept a list of all the users...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a custom application that adds some attributes to the Active Directory schema. These attributes have hyphens in their names, and I can’t figure out how to retrieve the value of those attributes; any time I try to connect to one I get an error message. Any suggestions?-- TW Hey, TW. You know a lot of people don&rs...

Hey, Scripting Guy! In my logon script how can I determine the name of the domain controller that authenticated the user?-- CK Hey, CK. You know, one of the unwritten rules for being a Scripting Guy is that you should never do anything hard more than once a week. (Why is this an unwritten rule? Mainly because we were all too lazy to write it dow...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the disabled user accounts in Active Directory?-- RT Hey, RT. Now, just remember, you asked for this. We have a script that returns a list of disabled user accounts in Active Directory; the only problem is that part of the script is a little cryptic (to say the least), and we won’t be able to fully...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add an email address to the proxyAddresses attribute without overwriting all the existing attributes?-- DH Hey, DH. For those of you who aren’t too familiar with the proxyAddresses attribute (and, alas, that includes the Scripting Guys) proxyAddresses is an attribute added to Active Directory by Microsoft Exchange; ...