March, 2011

Summary : The Scripting Wife signs up for the Windows PowerShell 2011 Scripting Games. The weather in Charlotte, North Carolina has been rather erratic this week. It has been warm and sunny, cold and rainy, and everything in between. The one thing...

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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to automatically create files with the date stored in them. The room seems quiet now. I take a deep breath, let it out slowly, and begin to relax. My name is Ed Wilson. I am the Microsoft...

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Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use the Windows PowerShell switch command and regular expressions to parse text files. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. The Script Week Live Meetings have been great fun, and the feedback has been...

Summary : The Scripting Wife dives into the mysteries of using regular expressions to read and search a group of files in PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I had a great trip to Seattle, Washington to teach a Windows PowerShell...

Summary : The judge’s criteria for the Windows PowerShell 2011 Scripting Games are released. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Yesterday we released our list of judges for the 2011 Scripting Games. One of the things that is important...

Weekend Scripter: Meet the judges for the 2011 Scripting Games Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Here are the judges for the Windows PowerShell 2011 Scripting Games, in no particular order. Sean Kearney Sean Kearney is an infrastructure...

Summary : Learn Windows PowerShell by participating in the 2011 Scripting Games. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. I have actually heard a few people who said they were not interested in the 2011 Scripting Games. They said they did not have...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson will present five Live Meetings for Microsoft Tech · Ed 2011 during the Road To Tech · Ed Script Week . It is official. I will conduct five Live Meetings beginning Monday, March 28, 2011. In...

Summary : Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to easily search a collection of files for phone numbers. Spring has nearly sprung in Charlotte, North Carolina. The weather seems to alternate between absolutely perfect to a little cool...

Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use a regular expression pattern to look for phone numbers in text files. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. I am looking over some of the slide decks from the Columbia, South Carolina SQL Saturday...

Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to get specific lines from a text file. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. As the Windows PowerShell 2011 Scripting Games edge forward in the conscious minds of intrepid scripters...

Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell and regular expressions to replace text in strings. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. I just finished a meeting with the Microsoft TechEd people about doing a series of five...

Big news! Our friends from Tech·Ed North America 2011 have donated two full conference passes to give away as part of the 2011 Scripting Games. (This does not include travel costs or other expenses.) Woohoo! Keep in mind that each pass is worth...

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Summary : On the road to the 2011 Scripting Games, the Scripting Wife learns about regular expressions and string matching. Weekend Scripter Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. The Scripting Wife and I decided to head to Hilton Head Island...

Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to determine the number of days until the NCAA championship game. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. It has been an extremely exciting week. I finished writing all of the Windows...

Summary : This is a list of frequently asked questions about the Windows PowerShell 2011 Scripting Games. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. The prep work for the 2011 Scripting Games is nearly complete. All the events are written and in the...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to detect if a workstation is in use prior to performing a reboot Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem in that I need to detect when a user is logged on to a system so that I can patch it and reboot...