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Summary : Guest blogger, Bob Stevens, talks about using Windows PowerShell to clean out temporary folders on desktops following a malware infection. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, we welcome back our newest guest blogger, Bob Stevens. Yesterday Bob wrote about a quick script that...

Summary: Guest blogger and Honorary Scripting Guy Brian Wilhite talks about using Windows PowerShell to change a user’s mouse scheme. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, we have a guest blogger—Brian Wilhite is an Honorary Scripting Guy and member of the Charlotte PowerShell...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to find enabled Windows 8 features. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the neat things about Windows (does not matter the version) is how I can customize the installation or deployment. In fact,...

Summary : Learn three ways to use Windows PowerShell to reset the computer secure channel. Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a problem with the computers in our computer classroom. We set up this classroom to teach new hires how to use our mission critical application. We are, however, not hiring as many...

Summary : Learn how to replace netdom commands with simple Windows PowerShell cmdlets to rename and reboot the computer or join the domain. Hey, Scripting Guy! It seems that I have been hand building a number of computers recently for a computer lab we are setting up at work. I have written a batch...

Summary : Microsoft PFE, Chris Wu, discusses using Windows PowerShell to configure Jump Lists. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome to the weekend. Today we have a special treat in the form of a guest blogger. The Scripting Wife and I had the good fortune to meet Chris Wu in Montreal...

Summary : Learn how to Use Windows PowerShell to find the last logon times for virtual workstations. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger, Brian Wilhite. Brian was our guest blogger yesterday when he wrote about detecting servers that will have a problem with an...

Summary : See how guest blogger, Rich Prescott, leveraged the Windows PowerShell community as he built his popular ArPosh Client System Administration tool. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. We are really starting the new year off correctly. We have another very strong guest blogger today...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to quickly find installed software on local and remote computers. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Guest Blogger Weekend concludes with Marc Carter. The Scripting Wife and I were lucky enough to attend the first PowerShell User Group meeting in...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to work with your environmental path variable. Weekend Scripter: Use Windows PowerShell to Modify Your Path Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Welcome back to the weekend and Guest Blogger Sean Kearney. Read more about Sean and his previous...

Summary : Learn how to use the BSonPoSH Windows PowerShell module to check Active Directory replication and other tasks. Hey, Scripting Guy! Your article yesterday left me wondering. If there are so many cool things in the BSonPoSH module, why did you only show a couple of commands? Are there other...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to check disk space used by logs, and to clear those logs to reclaim space. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. One of the things I found as I was researching ways to enable and to disable the ETW trace logs is that a seemingly large number of people...

Summary : Learn how to use a free Windows PowerShell module to avoid writing WMI scripts to get common administrator information. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. One of the things that is really cool about Windows PowerShell modules, is that you can mix and match them. In this way, a module...

Summary : Learn how to combine Windows PowerShell modules to save time and reduce scripting overhead. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. One of the cool things about Windows PowerShell modules is that they are easy to share. In addition, because the code is packaged as a module, one automatically...

Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP Jeffery Hicks solves 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 5, and returns objects with desktop configuration information. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Today we have Jeffery Hicks as our expert commentator for Beginner Event 5. Jeffery Hicks is...

Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to shut down remote computers. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. It is raining outside and every so often a window-shaking thunder clap erupts outside, jarring the teeth of everyone inside our house in Charlotte, North Carolina...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to detect the version of Internet Explorer that is running on your computer. In this post: Access Environment Variables using a VBS Script Version Control for PowerShell Scripts Detect Internet Explorer Versions ...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to detect your version of Microsoft Office. Also learn about locating your Windows PowerShell installation location. In this post: · Detect Your Microsoft Office Version · Locate Your Windows PowerShell Installation Detect Your...

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Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is time for another road trip. This time we are heading to Asheville, North Carolina for the Blue Ridge Classic Horse Show. Somewhere deep in my Scripting Guy lineage is an association with Kentucky , which is considered a horse state. Horse shows are really...

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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 need to be able to read a text file, and connect to a number of different remote machines to update an environment variable. Is this something that can be done using Windows PowerShell? -- ES Hello ES, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. We looked at that specific...

Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. With the 2010 Scripting Games over, I have a bit of extra time on the weekends. I was catching up on reading some of my favorite blogs, such as the WMI team blog , when I ran across a post that reminded me of a question I used to be asked when I was teaching my...

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