March, 2010

About the author : Susan Hill writes content for Virtual Machine Manager. While her early influences include Kernighan and Ritchie, more recently she has broadened her skills under the Windows PowerShell movement. She aspires to be the Gauguin of Windows...

About the author : Susan Hill writes content for Virtual Machine Manager. While her early influences include Kernighan and Ritchie, more recently she has broadened her skills under the Windows PowerShell movement. She aspires to be the Gauguin of Windows...

About the author : Susan Hill writes content for Virtual Machine Manager. While her early influences include Kernighan and Ritchie, more recently she has broadened her skills under the Windows PowerShell movement. She aspires to be the Gauguin of Windows...

Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Yesterday , the Scripting Wife installed Windows Power Shell 2.0 on her Windows XP Service Pack 3 computer. She used Microsoft Update to add the .NET Framework before completing the installation of Windows PowerShell...

Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Spring has definitely sprung in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the southern part of the United States. Our clocks have been set forward for several weeks now, and the days seem to begin earlier than they did before...

About the author : Tibor Soós is a Windows PowerShell MVP who lives in Hungary. I started to learn programming in 1982 at the age of 12. My father bought a little Z80 based computer, named Mickey '80 , which was produced by a computer manufacturing...

Hello, everyone. This is Clint Huffman , this time writing from Seattle, Washington, in the United States. I have hijacked this blog. Don’t tell Ed. Just joking. Actually, Ed Wilson allowed me the honor of filling in for him on one of the blog posts and...

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About the author : Doug Finke is a Microsoft PowerShell MVP working for Lab49 , a company that builds advanced applications for the financial service industry. Over the last 20 years, Doug has been a developer and author working with numerous technologies...

About the author : Brian Lalancette is a consultant at Navantis, Inc . He is MCTS certified with more than 10 years’ experience in various Microsoft platforms, including SharePoint, ISA Server, and Live Communications, and has just recently caught...

About the author: Ravikanth works at Dell, Inc., as a lead engineer in the Microsoft SharePoint solutions team. He loves automation and is a Windows PowerShell fanatic. He writes regularly on his blog about topics related to Windows PowerShell, SharePoint...

The 2010 Scripting Games are designed to test a wide variety of real-world skills and scenarios. A wide range of scripting skills will be useful. However, specific skills are targeted for this year’s games. The following resources will assist you in successful...

The fifth annual Scripting Games are nigh! This year, the Games will take place April 26 through May 7. We decided to shift back to the spring/winter timeframe (or summer, if you live in Australia). Given the range of seasons in the world — it is almost...

In this post : What's the Status of VBScript and Windows Script Host? Can I Promote UAC in Windows PowerShell? Help Me Customize This Script How Can I Find the Last Logged-On User on a Windows Vista Computer? What's the Status of...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I like the idea of using Windows PowerShell jobs in a script. The problem is that I have multiple jobs I want to run. I would like to be able to wait until all the jobs have completed, and then receive the jobs all at once. Is this...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Your examples this week on using Windows PowerShell jobs have all been from the command line. Is it possible to use Windows PowerShell jobs in a script? If so, how would I do it? -- AG Hello AG, Microsoft Scripting Guy...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I am not sure how much help running the Get-Process cmdlet as a job is going to be for me in my work environment. I kind of get what you are trying to do — provide an illustrative technique for working with Windows PowerShell jobs...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been thinking about writing a script and using the .NET Framework class system.thread to give me the ability to do multiple things at once. I need to perform a query of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) that will consume...

Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is Sunday evening in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States, which means it is Monday morning on the other side of the world. I was up late last night finishing yesterday’s Weekend Scripter article....

Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I spent the day at SQL Saturday in Charlotte, NC. I could not resist the opportunity to network with that many rabid Windows PowerShell addicts. I mean, anyone who gives up their Saturday to come to a Microsoft...

In this post : How Can I Format Dates in Windows PowerShell? A Get-ProgID Function from James Brundage? How Can I Run This Script on Remote Computers? Using Command-Line Arguments with Batch Files Can You Help Me Improve My Script? ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! One thing I miss in Windows PowerShell is the ability to use a Try/Catch/Finally block that I can use in C#. To me it is an elegant solution to error handling. You attempt something, catch any resulting errors, and clean up the mess...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Ignoring errors or bubbling up errors to the user of a script seems a bit inefficient. I mean, wouldn’t it be better to avoid the errors in the first place? I am only a beginner when it comes to writing scripts, and maybe I just do...

(This post by Ed Wilson originally appeared on the Microsoft Press Blog on Tuesday, March 9, 2010.) On the face of it, one may think this is unfair competition. After all, the Scripting Wife is married to the Microsoft Scripting Guy. However, as Teresa...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I enjoyed reading your blog post yesterday about using $ErrorActionPreference to control the behavior of a script. One thing I never liked about using “On Error Resume Next” from VBScript was that it seemed to be an all-or-nothing...