Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I search for multiple file extensions in a single WQL query?– AH Hey, AH. If we understand your question correctly, you want to know if it’s true that the Seattle Seahawks are playing in the Super Bowl this Sunday. Yes, it is true: our very own Seahawks will be taking…
Year: 2006
How Can I Remove All the Formatting from an Excel Spreadsheet?
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remove all the formatting from an Excel spreadsheet?– MT Hey, MT. You know, several years ago one of the Scripting Guys and his family went to the Blizzard Beach water park in Orlando. While there this Scripting Guy went down the Summit Plummet, reputed at the time to be…
How Can I Boldface a Specific Word Throughout a Microsoft Word Document?
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I boldface a specific word throughout a Microsoft Word document?– SB Hey, SB. You’ll probably find this hard to believe, but when you work with scripts and scripting all day you tend to get a little jaded. You say you have a script that automatically backs up and clears all…
How Can I Retrieve Information About the Latest Event Added to an Event Log?
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve information about the latest event added to an event log?– HG Hey, HG. You know, it seems like only yesterday that someone was asking us how they could find the oldest event in an event log. And we remember how we told them that – oh, right: it…
How Can I Find the Date of the Oldest Event in an Event Log?
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find the date of the oldest event in an event log?– JL Hey, JL. You know, you just had to make a reference to “old” in your question, didn’t you? Just today one of the Scripting Guys received a letter from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). Although…
How Can I Count the Number of Computers in a Domain?
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I count the number of computers in a domain?– TN Hey, TN. Here’s a true story for you. About 5 years ago, when one of the Scripting Guys first started at Microsoft, his group here (which might not be the most technically-savvy group at the company) needed to get a…
How Can I Auto-Delete Specific File Types from the My Pictures Folder?
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I auto-delete specific file types from the My Pictures folder? If an error occurs with my fax machine, .drg and .txt files get added to My Pictures. I then have to delete these files before the fax machine will work again.– WW Hey, WW. You know, this was a case…
How Can I Get a List of All the Objects that have been Added to Active Directory Since a Specified Date?
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the objects that have been added to Active Directory since a specified date?– KR Hey, KR. First of all we’d like to apologize if our answer here is still a little soggy. No doubt you’ve seen cartoons where someone receives a package in the…
How Can I Display the IP Addresses Associated with a Given MAC Address?
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I display the IP addresses associated with a given MAC address?– NK Hey, NK. Before we answer your question we should take a moment to answer a related question. People often ask us, “If I have a MAC address can I write a script that will tell me which computer…
How Can I Add a User to a Group, but Only if that User is a Member of the IT Department?
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a user to a group, but only if that user is a member of the IT department?– JV Hey, JV. You know, this is your lucky day: not only are we going to show you how you can add a specified user to a group (assuming, of course,…