Searching in this forum only showed up a few relevant matches from the earlier part of this decade, so I'll ask this one again. I'm a *nix guy at heart, so my Win* knowledge is lacking in this area. I ...

Not being a server admin I've been lucky enough (depending on your POV, I suppose) not to have much need to do this sort of thing; CMD scripts have sufficed for the rest. It's about time I learned, ...