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Summary : Use Windows PowerShell to help you stay up-to-date with the 2013 Scripting Games. How can I use Windows PowerShell to obtain an RSS feed of all 2013 Scripting Games content from the Scripting Guys? Use the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet in Windows PowerShell 3.0 and specify the uri for the...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to find the date for a specific holiday by using a web service. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem. I guess you hear that a lot. Anyway, my boss has given me what I think is an impossible task—to find the holidays...

Summary: Use a Windows PowerShell 3.0 cmdlet to find PowerTip articles and the associated links. How can I use a Windows PowerShell 3.0 cmdlet to find PowerTip articles and associated links to those articles? Use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet and specify the URI for the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog...

Summary : Windows PowerShell MVP, Doug Finke, discusses using a simple Windows PowerShell command to convert to or from JSON. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have guest blogger, Doug Finke. Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, Doug Finke is the author of Windows PowerShell...

Summary : Microsoft PowerShell MVP, Marco Shaw, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to download TechEd 2012 session content. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have a guest blogger, Windows PowerShell MVP, Marco Shaw. For more from Marco, read his other Hey, Scripting Guy! guest...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use a text file when making a SOAP request via Windows PowerShell 3.0. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, I spent the day playing around with Windows PowerShell 3.0. It is a lot of fun. One of the things I enjoy doing is working...

Summary : Use Windows PowerShell to cast an RSS feed to an XML document. How can you navigate an RSS feed as if it was an XML document by using Windows PowerShell? When retrieving an RSS feed, ensure that you cast it to an XML document by using the [xml] type accelerator: [xml]$hsg = Invoke...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to explore an RSS feed from the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is just a few days until I speak at the Central Ohio Windows PowerShell User Group. The Scripting Wife and I...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to easily download web page links from a blog. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today the weather outside is beautiful here in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States. I opened the windows around...

Summary : Windows PowerShell MVP, Marco Shaw, talks about using a Windows PowerShell 3.0 cmdlet to download 60 virtual machine files from the Microsoft download site. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have a guest blog from Windows PowerShell MVP, Marco Shaw. Take it away Marco…...

Summary : Learn how to use the web services in SharePoint with Windows PowerShell to query for search results. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today our Guest Blogger Week continues with an excellent post about using Windows PowerShell cmdlets with SharePoint. The post is written by a...

Summary : Guest Blogger Jon Newman shows how to automate Facebook with a free Windows PowerShell module. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It’s Guest Blogger Week! Today, we have Jon Newman from Microsoft who is going to talk to us about his new Windows PowerShell Facebook module. Take...

Summary : Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, Marco Shaw, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to automatically download TechEd sessions. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Today we have a guest blogger: Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, Marco Shaw. Downloading Microsoft TechEd sessions automatically...

Summary : Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP, Tome Tanasovski, uses regular expressions to get Twitter IDs from a web page while solving Advanced Event 7 in 2011 Scripting Games. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Tome Tanasovski is the expert commentator for Advanced Event 7. Tome is a...

Summary : Microsoft Windows PowerShell senior software engineer, Lee Holmes, solves 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 6 and gets Twitter IDs from a web page. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Today we have Lee Holmes as our expert commentator for Advanced Event 6 . Lee Holmes is...

Summary : Advanced Event 7 in 2011 Scripting Games uses Windows PowerShell to map user's names to Twitter names. About this event Division Advanced Date of Event 4/12/2011 12:15 AM Due Date 4/19/2011 12:15 AM Event...

Summary : Advanced Event 6 in 2011 Scripting Games uses Windows PowerShell to get Twitter names from a web page. About this event Division Advanced Date of Event 4/11/2011 12:15 AM Due Date 4/18/2011 12:15 AM Event...

Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to unblock files that are downloaded from the Internet by using Windows PowerShell and a Sysinternals tool. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. It is two days until the 2011 Scripting Games kick off. Things are quiet right now, and I am enjoying a chance...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell regular expressions to parse an RSS feed. Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find patterns in text with regular expressions when I am unsure of where line breaks will occur in the text I am reading? —TT Hello TT, Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to download code snippets from the Internet and install them for use in the Windows PowerShell ISE. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It seems as if there is an old song that rather describes things right now. It goes somewhat like this: The...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to download files from the Internet and other cool tasks in today’s Quick-Hits Friday. In this Post: Working with Windows PowerShell Group Policy Cmdlets Using PowerShell to Log In to an HTTPS Website PowerShell Best Practices VBScript...

Summary: Microsoft MVP Sean Kearney shows how to use the Bing web services API from inside a Windows PowerShell script. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Sean Kearney is back with us today as he continues to share with us his discoveries while playing. Read more about Sean in the introduction...

Summary: Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell function to download lyrics for your favorite songs. Retrieving song lyrics with Windows PowerShell Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Well it is New Year’s day in Charlotte , North Carolina . This year, or perhaps I should say last...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to create a holiday wish list Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is almost the end of the year and we have decided to devote some posts to the holiday season. We even have guest bloggers from around the world to share some holiday spirit. Today...

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 ...