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Summary : In Beginner Event 6, you are required to compute the uptime for the local computer. About this event Division Beginner Date of Event 4/9/2012 12:01 AM Due Date 4/16/2012 12:01 AM Event scenario You...

Summary : Learn about using Windows PowerShell and specifying different calendar types to use with dates. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today is day four of my PowerShell Essentials for the Busy Admin series of webcasts. The series has been a lot of fun, and the feedback so far has...

Summary : Write a Windows PowerShell function to determine the status of time changes to daylight savings time. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. At the Windows PowerShell User Group meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, Brian Wilhite talked about a few of his scripts during the script...

Summary : Learn how to use culture information in Windows PowerShell to format dates. Hey, Scripting Guy! I enjoyed your article yesterday about manually changing the way a date is displayed using string techniques. But the problem is that is a bit complicated, and is even potentially error prone...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson discusses four different techniques for using Windows PowerShell to convert date formats. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem. Although I am sure you hear this a lot, this problem is causing me a major problem at work. Here is the deal. We are a large...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to easily get the number of the week of the year. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It seems that at times things appear to be too hard. At other times, things that I figure might be too hard, end up being super simple. I guess this is why I...

Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP Marco Shaw solves beginner event 10 in the 2011 Scripting Games and shows how to time script operations Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Marco Shaw is the author of the expert commentary for Beginner Event 10 . Marco is a consultant with CGI in...

Summary : Microsoft PFE, Michael Frommhold, uses Windows PowerShell to get the number of days between two dates as he solves Beginner Event 7 in one line of code. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Michael Frommhold is the author for the expert commentary on Beginner Event 7. Michael has been...

Summary : Beginner Event 9 in 2011 Scripting Games uses Windows PowerShell to create a file with a name that is based on a date. About this event Division Beginner Date of Event 4/14/2011 12:01 AM Due Date 4/21/2011 12:01 AM ...

Summary : Beginner Event 7 uses Windows PowerShell to determine the number of days between dates. About this event Division Beginner Date of Event 4/12/2011 12:01 AM Due Date 4/19/2011 12:01 AM Event scenario ...

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 PowerShell 2011 Scripting Games events, and I...

Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It has been a great week with some excellent guest bloggers. It is not that I took the week off; rather, I have spent the week working on some special projects I wanted to complete. The great thing about working with guest bloggers is that I get to tap into world...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to understand how to work with dates that I receive from Windows Management Instrumentation ( WMI ). I remember in VBScript I had to use a function I got from the Scripting Guys that did string manipulation to convert the WMI date to a “normal” date. I guess that...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to add and subtract dates so that I can use the results in custom queries for various Windows event logs using Windows PowerShell . Is doing this type of date manipulation easy or hard to do with Windows PowerShell? If it is not too difficult to do, could you whip...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to use Windows PowerShell to be able to parse dates. We have dates that are displayed in different ways. Some are day/month/year, others are month/day/year, and still others are year/month/day. I need to be able to express these different date configurations with a minimal...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to use Windows PowerShell to work with dates. Dates have always been a difficult thing to work with, and I just dread scripting anything that has to do with dates. It seemed that VBScript had a dozen functions that were used to work with dates and times. Is there...

In this post : What in the World Is Wrong with This Windows PowerShell Script I Wrote? How Can I Make a Script Run When a User Logs On? What in the World Is Wrong with This Windows PowerShell Script I Wrote? Hey, Scripting Guy! On trying to parse a datetime...

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? How Can I Format Dates in Windows PowerShell...

(Note: This blog post appeared originally as an article on the old Microsoft Script Center. It was originally published in December 2005. We are resurrecting it here by popular demand.) Sometimes the things that should be so easy turn out to be incredibly difficult. For example, have you ever tried...

In this post : Please Clarify This Script You Published Previously How Can I Report a Bug I Found in the Windows PowerShell ISE? How Can I Close an Open Folder on a Network Drive? Can I Automate the Scheduling of Offline File Tasks? Please Clarify This Script You Published Previously...

In this post : Has the WMI Problem with Dates and Daylight Saving Time Been Resolved? How Can I Change the Color of Error Messages in the Windows PowerShell Console? How Can I Read a Text File and Update 2,000 User Accounts? Can I Use a WildCard Character for File Names with the FileSystemObject...

How Can I Pipe Over a Variable for Use in a File Name? Hey, Scripting Guy! Sorry to bother you but I have been looking for an answer to this for a few hours now. I’ve also been experimenting but have had no luck figuring it out yet. How do you get a variable to pipe over to use in a file name?...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a file name from the date? I have this application that creates a log file, and every hour I would like to save that log file as a file whose name is generated from the current time stamp. Can this be done? - RH Hi RH, Ever since I read your e-mail message,...

Three o'clock in the morning is early for anyone, even a scripting guy. Yet there was this persistent annoying ringing sound that kept trying to interrupt my short-lived sleep. At last I was able to put a name to the intrusion. Alarm clock. It is time to get up. Today I begin the process of going to...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I am writing to you offline because I am stuck in an airplane somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. It seems like I have been flying for two weeks, and I am really getting tired of looking at the bald spot on the head in front of me. Do you know when we will land? -- DS Hi DS, ...