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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use WMI with Windows PowerShell?
I have been looking at Windows PowerShell, and think it would be cool to use. We use WMI a lot at work, and I am wondering if I can gather the same kinds of information using Windows PowerShell that...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Find the Names of WMI Classes?
I was looking through some of the scripts in the Script Repository that use WMI, and they seem to make sense. In fact, they seem annoyingly repetitive. That is not my question. My question is how in...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Migrate My VBScript WMI Queries to Windows...
We are pretty well annoyed at you guys. We spent all this time and energy creating all these VBScripts over the last nine years. We have several hundred VBScripts that we use in production, and with...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Get WMI Information About More Than One Computer?
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I List All Updates That Have Been Added to a...
Hey, Scripting Guy! We have Windows Update configured on all our workstations at work. Automatically, the workstations check for new updates, and download and install the updates that are required....
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Tell Which Software Updates Are Available Via...
Hey, Scripting Guy! I am curious about the updates that are available from Windows Update. The whole process seems so nebulous. It is like some kind of Impressionist painting that suggests things, but...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Search For, Download, and Install an Update?
Hey, Scripting Guy! Reporting on whether a Windows Update is installed or not is pretty cool. However, what happens when I determine the update has not been applied? Am I supposed to call the user and...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Remove a Microsoft Update?
Hey, Scripting Guy! You are not going to believe this. We recently deployed a Microsoft Update, and it is not working well for us. I tested it, of course, but for some reason it is not playing well...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Search Active Directory?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I am just getting started using Windows PowerShell, and while it is pretty cool, I really need to be able to search Active Directory. I tried to adapt some old VBScripts I found...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Search Active Directory from Within Windows...
Hey Scripting Guy! It seems that searching Active Directory from within Windows PowerShell is rather easy. But what I do not get is the syntax for the query. In the past I used something that looked...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Search Active Directory with Windows PowerShell...
Hey, Scripting Guy! We created some groups that were used by our student interns. The student interns have now returned to college (yeah, it was a while ago). To be honest, I had actually forgotten...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Search Active Directory and Produce a Report?
Hey, Scripting Guy! We are in the situation where we are closing a number of remote offices, and I need to quickly be able to generate a list of the computers that are contained in those remote...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create the Same User Account and Password on...
Hey, Scripting Guy! We have an application that runs on our local computers. It is a rather old application, and of course it is mission critical. Because this application is not Active Directory...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create More Than One User, Assign Attribute...
Hey, Scripting Guy! I enjoyed your article yesterday about creating a local user account. However, for my purposes I need to be able to create more than one user. Also I would like to be able to...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change the Passwords of Multiple Local Computer...
Hey, Scripting Guy! We have certain accounts that are local accounts. These accounts are created when the computer is built, and the passwords are set and that is it. For as long as the computer...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Identify All Local Users, Groups, and Services...
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have several computers that seem to be identical, but they act like they are different. I mean, the same person set the computers up, so I imagine he followed the checklist and...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create a Scheduled Task on a Number of Computers?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have to be able to create a simple scheduled task via script on a number of computers. I do not need to do anything fancy, but it needs to be quick and easy to do. Do you have...
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I List and Delete Scheduled Jobs?
Hey, Scripting Guy! We had this guy a while back who went around and created all kinds of goofy scheduled tasks using the AT command. He did not document anything, and many of the scheduled jobs do...
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