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April 29, 2005Apr 29, 200504/29/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the user and computer account Description attributes each time a user logs on? I’d like the Description to indicate who logged on, and when.— GG
Hey, GG. This is actually a pretty good idea.
April 28, 2005Apr 28, 200504/28/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I purge all the print jobs on a Windows 2000 print server?— KC
Hey, KC. This is one of those questions we hate, not because we don’t have an answer for it – we do –
April 27, 2005Apr 27, 200504/27/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell if a specific Excel workbook is open and, if it isn’t, open it?— RK
Hey, RK. Every now and then we see a question and think, “We should answer this one; it’s so easy it won’t take more than a few minutes to finish the column and then we can all take a nice long lunch.” At some point you’d think we’d learn that every time we say that it turns out that the problem isn’t as easy as it first looked,
April 26, 2005Apr 26, 200504/26/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add all the users from an existing Active Directory group to a new group?— TG
Hey, TG. So you have a group (we’ll call it Group A) and you want to create an exact replica of that group (we’ll call it Group B).
April 25, 2005Apr 25, 200504/25/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I configure a computer to use a dynamically-assigned DNS Server?— JB
Hey, JB. Ah, this question brings back memories. A couple years ago the Scripting Guys were faced with this same problem, and discovered the answer entirely by accident;
