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Hey, Scripting Guy! We currently have user home directory information stored in this format: kenmyer on 'atl-fs-001\vol' (U:). How I can extract the user name and drive letter and change the format to this: U:\kenmyer?-- AR Hey, AR. Well, it’s Monday, day 1 of the TechEd IT Forum, and the Scripting Guys have arrived in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelon...

Our phone numbers are stored in Active Directory as extension numbers; however, we have a set of rules for converting those extensions to actual phone numbers. I’m writing a script to create an Outlook signature, but in that script I need to be able to convert an extension to a phone number. How do I do that?-- SM Hey, SM. You know, you are look...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remove all the non-alphabetic characters in a string?-- CD Hey, CD. You know, typically the Scripting Guys don’t play favorites; we treat all our readers and all the questions we receive exactly the same. (OK, so, technically that means that, for the most part, we simply ignore all our readers as well as all the que...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I truncate file names by removing a common beginning and ending, leaving only the unique middle portion of the name?-- RE Hey, RE. Before we answer your question we’d like to point out that we’ve finally posted the winners of the Scripting Guys TechEd Challenge. (If you are a winner we’ve got good news: our shipping ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I open a CSV file, locate a value in column 1, then store the value in column 2 in a variable?-- THvdH Hey, HvdH. We have to be honest with you, it’s a little difficult for the Scripting Guy who writes this column to stay focused on his work today. After all, tomorrow is one of the biggest and best of all holidays in th...