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• Windows XP Service Pack 2 Application Compatibility Scripts

  One of the developer resources useful to IT folks that you might overlook in the vastness of microsoft.com is -- deep breath -- the Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2 This download contains documentation Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:34 PM by gstemp | 2 Comments

• New Scripting Guys webcast on scripting Windows XP Service Pack 2 available on-demand

  The latest Scripting Guys' Webcast took place Friday, October 8th, and is now available from the TechNet Webcast archives in on-demand video form. It's called Scripting with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2: SOS! and you can find it at: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032259299&Culture=en-US Read More... Posted Monday, October 25, 2004 2:54 PM by gstemp | 4 Comments

• Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Stop a Script Partway Through?

  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/aug04/hey0830.mspx Read More... Posted Friday, September 03, 2004 1:52 PM by gstemp | 1 Comments Filed under: Hey, Scripting Guy!

• Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create a Folder on a Remote Computer?

  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/sept04/hey0901.mspx Read More... Posted Friday, September 03, 2004 1:51 PM by gstemp | 2 Comments Filed under: Hey, Scripting Guy!

• Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Prompt a User for Input?

  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/aug04/hey0831.mspx Read More... Posted Friday, September 03, 2004 1:51 PM by gstemp | 2 Comments Filed under: Hey, Scripting Guy!

• Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Enumerate All the Objects in an Active Directory OU?

  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/sept04/hey0902.mspx Read More... Posted Friday, September 03, 2004 1:50 PM by gstemp | 1 Comments Filed under: Hey, Scripting Guy!

• Hey, Scripting Guy! Daily Column

  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/default.mspx Read More... Posted Friday, September 03, 2004 1:44 PM by gstemp | 1 Comments Filed under: Hey, Scripting Guy!

• Extreme file and folder scripting: Listing a directory tree recursively - Day 3 – Bonus script: Using WMI with LIKE

  When I showed these scripts to Dean, he thought there had to be an easier way to recurse through a directory tree with WMI, and he found it. The only caveat is that you must run it on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. This is because WMI Query Language, Read More... Posted Friday, August 13, 2004 12:43 PM by gstemp | 2 Comments

• Extreme file and folder scripting: Listing a directory tree recursively - Day 2 – Using WMI

  BabyScript Now that we've glanced at recursion out of the corner of our eye (on Day 1) and lived, it's time to stare straight-on into the unspeakable horror of the Medusa Code. If you have sunglasses, please put them on now. If you try to speak its name, Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 2:47 PM by gstemp | 1 Comments

• Extreme file and folder scripting: Listing a directory tree recursively. Day 1 – Using FilesSystemObject

  BabyScript If you attended Day 3 of the Scripting Week webcasts, "Scripting Files and Folders Makes Me Happy" http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=30795, you may recall an odd and vaguely menacing script in the second section on WMI. It bristled with Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:31 AM by gstemp | 5 Comments

• Hey, I've been busy, OK? (Well, not really, but ....)

  Ok, ok, it has been a long time since I posted anything here, hasn’t it? Do I have an excuse for that? Shoot, not only do I have an excuse, I have three of them: I’m lazy. It’s baseball season. (As I noted awhile back, coaching baseball Read More... Posted Friday, April 30, 2004 10:44 AM by gstemp | 11 Comments

• Help Design the "Next Generation" Script Center

  Hey, guys. I apologize for being absent for so long from this space, but this time of year it’s hard for me to find the time to do things like blogs. Now, that might sound a bit odd; after all, as a Microsoft Scripting Guy, isn’t it my job Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:31 PM by gstemp | 22 Comments

• Book Review: Administrator's Top 10 Introductory Scripts

  One of the reasons I thought we should do a scripting blog is because there are a lot of things (like book reviews) that we can’t do on TechNet. Being somewhat naïve, I thought the other Scripting Guys (who actually read computer books) would Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:14 AM by gstemp | 11 Comments

• Useful Scripts? Please: Don't Ask

  As I’ve noted before, Microsoft really isn’t anything at all like its reputation. For example, we’re supposed to be the ruthless corporate bulldozer that simply crushes any human being that dares get in our way; in truth, though, we Read More... Posted Monday, March 08, 2004 8:55 AM by gstemp | 19 Comments

• The ... Joys ... of Scripting

  Yesterday was an interesting day. I went into the little editor they have for this blog site, and – like I always do – copied the day’s entry out of Word and pasted it into the editor. Everything looked hunky-dory, so I clicked the Submit Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:37 AM by gstemp | 9 Comments