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  Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to search Microsoft Active Directory for users that have missing values, and automatically add default values.   Hey, Scripting Guy! We have several network administrators where I work. Unfortunately, all of them have complete rights to Active Directory. This means that any one of the admin...

  Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows how to use Windows PowerShell to translate a user's SID to an Active Directory Domain Services account name.   Hey, Scripting Guy! It seems that whenever I search for Windows PowerShell scripts to translate a user name into a SID, all I can find is a script that uses WMI. WMI is too slow ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows how to use Windows PowerShell and WMI to translate a SID to a user name, or a user name to a SID.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I do a lot of work with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), and quite often I need to find the security identifier (SID) of a user. I know that I can find the SID...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows how to use Windows PowerShell to compare snapshots of running processes in this step-by-step article.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. The road seems to stretch on indefinitely. Parallel lines of concrete, surrounded by tall dancing pine trees and bordered by freshly mown grass, cont...

  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I don’t know about you, but I have thousands of music files on my computer. In fact, I have exactly 4,018 music files. I used this Windows PowerShell command to count them: PS E:\Music> (dir -Include *.mp3,*.wma -Recurse | Measure-Object).count 4018 ...