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Summary : Guest blogger, Microsoft evangelist Brian Hitney, discusses using Windows PowerShell to create and to manage Windows Azure deployments. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have guest blogger, Brian Hitney. Brian is a developer evangelist at Microsoft. You can read more...

Summary : Guest blogger, Brian Wilhite, shares his experience using Windows PowerShell jobs to speed up collecting information from WMI. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This weekend, we will start with guest blogger, Brian Wilhite. Brian Wilhite works as a Windows system administrator...

Summary : Guest blogger, Bill Stewart, discusses a Windows PowerShell function to determine folder size. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Guest blogger today is Bill Stewart. Bill Stewart is a scripting guru and a moderator for the Official Scripting Guys forum. Here’s Bill…...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, teaches how to use a Windows PowerShell module to simplify your profile. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem and I hope you can provide some answers. My Windows PowerShell profile is, I guess, a bit excessive. I have a function that customizes my Windows...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use a central file to simplify configuring your Windows PowerShell profile. Hey, Scripting Guy! So can you tell me without all the chatter, what is the best way to create a single Windows PowerShell profile? I don’t want to hear about...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses some of the decision points between using one or multiple Windows PowerShell profiles. Hey, Scripting Guy! OK, so I understand that there are different types of Windows PowerShell profiles (I liked your blog yesterday by the way). But you failed...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, discusses the six different Windows PowerShell profiles, and when to use each. Hey, Scripting Guy! Dude, I have been reading some of the posts in your most excellent blog; and first of all, I want to say I think you are great. Now for the question: I do...

Summary : The Scripting Guys reveal their Microsoft TechEd 2012 schedule and all the Windows PowerShell goodness thereof. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Yesterday we played WhatIf with the Scripting Wife about what sessions she would choose to attend at TechEd 2012 if she was not involved...

Summary : The Scripting Wife plays WhatIf and creates her ideal Microsoft TechEd 2012 schedule. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. The Scripting Wife likes to use WhatIf in her daily musings. She has also been hearing from a lot of people who are going to Microsoft TechEd for the first time...

Summary : Microsoft premier field engineer, Jason Walker, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to get a history of USB drive usage. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I was talking to Jason Walker at the Charlotte Windows PowerShell User Group the other day. I asked him what cool things...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about sources of Windows PowerShell documentation. Hey, Scripting Guy! I like Windows PowerShell, but it does not seem to come with any documentation. What is up with this? It seems that Microsoft makes this great product, and then they did not produce...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use the Windows PowerShell Get-Command cmdlet to discover information about parameter sets. Hey, Scripting Guy! One thing I don’t understand is parameter sets. I have heard about them, but I do not really find a good source of documentation...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use the Get-Command cmdlet in Windows PowerShell to find various commands. Hey, Scripting Guy! It all seems so easy for you. You want to find something by using Windows PowerShell and ba-da-bing, it is there. But for those of us who have not...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, looks at Windows PowerShell naming conventions to simplify learning Windows PowerShell. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a feeling that I am quickly falling behind the Windows PowerShell wave. I am an Exchange Server admin where I work, and we are planning our...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, answers the question about how to continue with the spirit of the Scripting Games. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I know it is the weekend, at least in Charlotte, North Carolina in the southern portion of the United States. But hey, I have...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows to use the PowerShell registry provider to easily modify registry property values. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is finally the weekend. It seems like it has been a rather long week. Of course, each week is only 168 hours long,...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to enumerate all the properties and their values under a registry key. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a question. It seems that getting the property values under a registry key is a tedious process. It looks like I need...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to create new registry keys on remote systems by using remoting. Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to create registry keys on a number of remote servers. I do not want to use the Registry Editor to do this because the servers all have the firewall enabled, and...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to create new registry keys on local and remote computers. Hey, Scripting Guy! I am often required to create new registry keys on our computers. One of the reasons for this is for occasional system configuration. You...

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to back up system state prior to making changes to the registry. Hey, Scripting Guy! I am interested in using Windows PowerShell to work with the registry, but everything I see talks about backing up the registry first. Is it possible to use Windows PowerShell...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use the Windows PowerShell registry provider to simplify access to registry keys and properties. Hey, Scripting Guy! I know that I am not supposed to mess around with the Registry on my computer, but the simple fact is that many times there...

Summary : With the Build-a-Book feature in the TechNet Library and MSDN, you can combine topics into a package to download for offline reading or printing. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today’s post is by Dave Bishop. He explains a cool new tool that enables readers to assemble...

Summary : Today’s post is a quick Windows PowerShell tip to save time for the Help Desk to unlock Active Directory accounts. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I was talking to Ashley the other day, and he was telling me about a cool tip he came up with that many of his customers had...

Summary : Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson demonstrates how to use the Out-GridView cmdlet with performance counter information. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a question, and hopefully you will not think it is a stupid one. During the 2012 Scripting Games, one of the events had to do with using performance...

Summary : Learn how to display easily consumed information about system services by using Windows PowerShell. Hey, Scripting Guy! I am still having trouble working with the Out-GridView cmdlet. I sort of understood what you were talking about yesterday, but when I tried it, all I got was errors. What...