Automate Active Directory tasks with scripts

While coming up with methods to do each of the tasks mentioned above, I created a 'master' script that referenced each task. I hope you find this script useful. To use it, simply copy the following into a text file using a text editor (I recommend Notepad++), name

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the file 'ADScripting.vbs' (or something similar), modify the AD specific lines to indicate a specific user, OU and group in your environment, go to a command line, change to the directory that contains the script and type: cscript ADScripting.vbs > UserInfo.txt

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