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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to shut down all virtual machines on a server running Hyper-V prior to shutting down the server. Hey, Scripting Guy! From time to time I need to shut down one of our servers that is running the Hyper-V role. The problem...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses creating a permanent WMI event registration to monitor for new files and clean up the file names. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I just booked the room for the Atlanta (Alpharetta) PowerShell Saturday. This will be PowerShell...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use the WMI Administrative tools to check on Permanent WMI events created by Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. We continue to get new sponsors for the second Windows PowerShell Saturday event that will be held...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows you that it's easier than you think to use VBScript to run a Windows PowerShell script. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Things are really heating up around here—and I am not just talking about the hot, humid weather down in Charlotte...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to monitor for the creation of new files. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Yesterday’s email from KS about his problems with files that contain leading spaces in them got me thinking. Although running...

Summary : The Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to monitor for acquiring an IP address. Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a problem. It seems that when people with laptops come into the office, it takes forever for them to obtain network access. On the tool bar, a blue...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, reviews and discusses Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog posts about WMI events and Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Tickets for the Jacksonville IT Pro Camp are rapidly disappearing. If you are anywhere near Jacksonville, Florida...

Summary : Guest Blogger Trevor Sullivan shows how to monitor and to respond to Windows Power events using Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today’s guest blogger is Trevor Sullivan, and he has a fascinating article about responding to power management events. First...

Summary : Use Windows PowerShell to troubleshoot software installation. Hey, Scripting Guy! I am having a problem troubleshooting the installation of an MSI package. I am using Group Policy to deploy the MSI package, and on some computers, it seems to work, but on other computers it fails. After...

Summary : Bruce Payette shows how to manage event subscriptions with Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. I am really excited about the idea I had for this week, and I hope you will be too. I asked Candace Gillhoolley at Manning Press about posting some sample works from some...

Summary : Bruce Payette shows how to use asynchronous event handling in Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. I am really excited about the idea I had for this week, and I hope you will be too. I asked Candace Gillhoolley at Manning Press about posting some sample works from...

Summary: Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell WMI module to create permanent event monitors. Hey, Scripting Guy! Can you provide some concrete examples of using the Windows PowerShell permanent event consumer module? -- TS Hello TS, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today Trevor...

Summary: Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell module to work with WMI permanent events. Hey, Scripting Guy! Your posts this week on permanent event consumers have been really cool. I am wondering, if they are so useful, why there is not a Windows PowerShell cmdlet to allow one to interact with...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to monitor and to respond to events on your computer or server without the need to run a script. Hey, Scripting Guy! I am interested in learning how to use Windows PowerShell to create a Windows Management Instrumentation ( WMI ) permanent event consumer...

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...

In this post : Shuffling Values Around in an Active Directory Organizational Unit How Can I Be Notified by Email of Specific Words Being Found in the Event Log? Shuffling Values Around in an Active Directory Organizational Unit Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to shuffle values...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to use Windows PowerShell 2.0 to log a user out of their desktop machine if they launch a particular application. This is not for security reasons or to keep people from playing games. This is because we have a really dumb application that requires a specific user...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to be able to use Windows PowerShell 2.0 to monitor for the insertion of a portable USB drive into a computer. When the drive is detected as having been added to the computer, I would like to have the script copy files to the USB drive. Is this possible? -- AJ ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a Windows Server 2003 computer that I need to monitor for reboots. This may sound rather strange, but this server is more of a workstation, and we have a user mode application that runs under an actual user account. Therefore, we log on using the ID we have set up, launch the...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a number of users on our network that use laptops as their primary workstation. These users are constantly complaining that their screen goes dark on them, or that the computer is running slow. I think the problem is the laptops switching between battery and AC power, or maybe...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to be notified when I plug in a USB drive into my computer. I have some cool ideas for using that, but I do not know how to detect when a USB drive is plugged in. I know I can run a script that loops through looking for all drives, and compares them with a previous collection...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be notified when a particular registry key value gets changed. The registry value is in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive. What I am trying to accomplish is this: I am using a script to install software. After the first piece of software is successfully installed, I want to install...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I work with portable USB drives all the time. These are used for backup purposes, for temporary storage, for Sneakernet , and as a means to work with extremely large files that I do not want cluttering up the small hard disk drive on my corporate standard desktop. The problem is that...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I would love to be able to write a Windows PowerShell script that will inform me when a portable drive is added to my computer. Do you have ideas you could suggest? -- RC Hello RC, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Well it has already been a rather interesting week...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem at work. It is not with the pointy-headed boss, but I believe the problem is probably related to him anyway. There is this application that runs on a workstation in our computer room. It is not a client server application, and of course the workstation is not really...