Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses using Windows PowerShell to dump and to analyze event logs—including security logs.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses using Windows PowerShell to aid in security forensic analysis of processes and services on a compromised system.

Guest blogger, Microsoft evangelist Brian Hitney, discusses using Windows PowerShell to create and to manage Windows Azure deployments.

Guest blogger, Brian Wilhite, shares his experience using Windows PowerShell jobs to speed up collecting information from WMI.

Guest blogger, Bill Stewart, discusses a Windows PowerShell function to determine folder size.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, teaches how to use a Windows PowerShell module to simplify your profile.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use a central file to simplify configuring your Windows PowerShell profile.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses some of the decision points between using one or multiple Windows PowerShell profiles.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses the six different Windows PowerShell profiles, and when to use each.

The Scripting Guy reveals his Microsoft TechEd 2012 schedule and all the Windows PowerShell goodness thereof.

The Scripting Wife plays WhatIf and creates her ideal Microsoft TechEd 2012 schedule.

Microsoft premier field engineer, Jason Walker, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to get a history of USB drive usage.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about sources of Windows PowerShell documentation.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use the Windows PowerShell Get-Command cmdlet to discover information about parameter sets.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use the Get-Command cmdlet in Windows PowerShell to find various commands.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, looks at Windows PowerShell naming convention to simplify learning PowerShell.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, answers the question about how to continue with the spirit of the Scripting Games.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows to use the PowerShell registry provider to easily modify registry property values.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to enumerate all the properties and their values under a registry key.

Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to create new registry keys on remote systems by using remoting.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to create new registry keys on local and remote computers.

Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to back up system state prior to making changes to the registry.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use the Windows PowerShell registry provider to simplify access to registry keys and properties.

With the Build-a-Book feature in the TechNet Library and MSDN, you can combine topics into a package to download for offline reading or printing.

Today’s post is a quick Windows PowerShell tip to save time for the Help Desk to unlock Active Directory accounts.