While the various programs and services on a computer are meant to offer you convenience, there are times when you may need to do repetitive tasks using the various tools and programs on the system.

Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.

I use OmniFocus on a daily basis to keep track of important tasks. On a few occasions, I've entered tasks and assigned notes to them, only to decide later that I'd rather use the note as the task name ...

One of the great things about OS X is that it’s like the real world. You store your files in folders; when you don’t want something, you put it in the Trash. But on your Mac, a folder isn’t really ...

I've got a backup utility that creates one folder every day; I only want to keep the last five folders made, so after the backup is run, I would like to run a script that purges the older folders.

In an Active Directory environment, you can create a logon script that can be applied to user accounts that automatically goes to work once a user logs in. Logon scripts can be used to assign tasks ...

AppleScripting is a powerful way to automate repetitive (and often tedious) tasks on the Mac. Once you start using a good script, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. The good news is that you ...

I'm wanting to test some scripts. After doing some reading I learned that my script go in the NETLOGON folder, but I don't have one. This a Server 2003 sp1 DC running ...