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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Tell How Much Free Disk Space a User Has?
I know most people have heard of Moore’s Law that is named after Gordon Moore, but have you ever heard of Bob’s law? Bob was the senior network administrator when I first became an IT pro, and he...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Rename All Files in a Folder?
I want to use SharePoint for our company’s script library, but it will not allow us to upload a VBScript file. It accepts PS1 files just fine, but we still have quite a few VBScripts and we need to...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Rename All of the Pictures in a Folder?
My scripting husband travels a great deal with his job, and he takes these really cool pictures. Unfortunately, he is somewhat lazy about downloading the pictures from the camera. As a result, we have...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Hide My Desktop Wallpaper?
I give a lot of presentations, and the background picture of my baby alpaca, while fascinating to me, probably does not have the same level of attraction to my clients. I know I can mouse around and...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I List All Group Policy Objects in a Domain?
Hey, Scripting Guy! Do you ever wonder how some people ever get their jobs? We had a guy who was hired to organize our Group Policy implementation. The person was a loser. I mean, I do not think he...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can Get a List of All My Orphaned Group Policy Objects?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem. I have been elected, given the honor, granted the opportunity to excel (whatever management euphemism you wish to use to describe giving me more work) to clean up...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create New Group Policy Objects?
Hey, Scripting Guy! Good morning. We are in the process of modifying our Group Policy implementation, and I anticipate having to create 15 or so new Group Policy objects. I know that I can open the...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Generate a List of My Group Policy Objects?
Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a number of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) that are not really doing anything. In fact, they are about as useless as an old hound dog with sinus problems. What I need is an...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Create an Office...
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have looked everywhere, and I cannot find a script that will create a new Microsoft Office Access database, and automatically add a new table and columns to it. If you had such a...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create a Database with More Than One Table?
Hey, Scripting Guy! Being able to create a database from a script is nice, and I appreciated your article yesterday. But I need to have a database with more than one table in it. Obviously this can be...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Tell Which Tables and Columns Are in a Database...
Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there a way to figure out which tables and columns are in a database without having to open it up? – DT Hi DT, The Impressionists are back in Chicago! For the past six months,...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Import Data into Office Access from Office Excel?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to do hardware inventory on all our workstations and on all our servers. I know System Center Configuration Manager can do this and a whole lot more. We actually have it...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Check Host Name Records?
Hey, Scripting Guy! We are having name resolution issues at work. It is so bad that when my wife calls me, the guy in the other cube gets the call. This manifests itself in concrete ways as well....
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create DNS Mail Exchanger (MX) Records and Have...
Hey, Scripting Guy! We are adding some new Exchange Servers to our messaging infrastructure, and I want to create some new MX (Mail Exchanger) records in DNS. I do not want to to create these records...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Create a New DNS Zone?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to create several new zones in DNS, and I do not want to waste time working through the GUI wizard. I mean, real network administrators do not use wizards. In the old days,...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Query and Retrieve DNS Information?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I know I can use the DNS WMI provider and query a DNS server. But what if I am not using a Microsoft DNS server? Or what if I do not have admin rights on the DNS server? What...
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