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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I be notified any time a service goes down?-- RN Hey, RN. As usual, there are a couple different ways you can do this, but perhaps the simplest approach is to create a script that monitors WMI events. We don’t have time to do a detailed explanation of WMI events in this column, but the basic idea is that you can ask WMI...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I enumerate all the objects in an Active Directory OU?-- RB Hey, RB. By the way, thanks: it’s always nice to get an easy question every once in awhile! Enumerating all the objects in an OU is almost embarrassingly-simple: by default, any time you bind to an OU using ADSI you automatically get back a collection of all th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need my script to prompt users to enter some information, like the name of the file they want to create. How do I do that?-- RW, Williamsport, PA Hey, BN. The simplest - and most foolproof - way to do this is to use an InputBox; when you do that users will be presented with a graphical dialog box similar to this: Displ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there a way to make a script stop itself if certain conditions aren’t met? Like say I’m going to copy files to a remote computer, but then the remote computer isn’t available. Can I write code that tells the script to just go ahead and quit at that point? -- WK, Palo Alto, CA Hey, WK. This is one of the easiest ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that does certain management tasks based on the day of the week. I know how get the date in a script, but how can I tell whether it’s a Monday or a Tuesday or whatever? -- CT, Tallahassee, FL Hey, CT. This is actually much easier then it might sound; that’s because VBScript has a built...