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Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to pass parameters to VBScript scripts and to console applications. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. This week we will have one guest blogger for the entire week. Sean Kearney has written a series of blog posts about Windows PowerShell and the...

Summary : Learn how to get exit codes from legacy programs or VBScript script from inside Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. This week we will have one guest blogger for the entire week. Sean Kearney has written a series of blog posts about Windows PowerShell and the Legacy...

Summary: A Windows PowerShell Carol in which Ebenezer Script learns how to integrate VBScript with PowerShell. Hey, Scripting Guy! Will Ebenezer Script learn how to integrate VBScript with Windows PowerShell? -- JS Hello JS, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is almost the end...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to be able to integrate VBScript scripts into my Windows PowerShell code. I also have some batch files I wish I could use with Windows PowerShell. I do not want to have to rewrite code that works perfectly fine. Is this possible? -- SK Hello SK, Microsoft...

Q: Hey Scripting Guy! I need to migrate a VBScript to Windows PowerShell 2.0 that I use to parse a log file for errors that occur during a specific operation. I am only interested in the errors, not the success statements. Because this log has a tendency to grow rather large, I would like to write the...

Q: Hey Scripting Guy! I need to convert a VBScript into Windows PowerShell 2.0. The script reads the first line of all text files that are in a particular folder, and if a specific word is in that file, it moves the text file to an archive folder. -- AO A: Hello AO, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson...

Q: Hey Scripting Guy! I need help migrating a script from VBScript to Windows PowerShell 2.0. The VBScript is one that I based upon an old Hey Scripting Guy! article. I use it to search a text file for specific words. If the words are found, the script displays a message stating this fact. I do not want...

    Hey, Scripting Guy! I am trying to learn Windows PowerShell 2.0, but I am having some issues when it comes to string manipulation. I have been a faithful reader of the Scripting Guys for several years, and I have found many of the scripts to be critical in my business environment. I wish...

Hey Scripting Guy! I am wondering about something. I was looking on the Script Center Script Gallery, and I came across a pretty cool script that lists items that are in the user's profile. It is in VBScript. Can you translate it to Windows PowerShell for me? -- AW Hello AW, Microsoft Scripting...

Hey, Scripting Guy! The week of April 17, 2009 , you did a weeklong series of “Hey, Scripting Guy!” articles on regular expressions. I tried to change one of your scripts to open an office Word document that uses Windows PowerShell to look for a particular word. Guess what? It did not work. Instead,...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I was looking through the Office Space Archive and came across a nice article that talks about how to create a table in Office Word . The article is interesting, but I am more interested in how to do this by using Windows PowerShell. Will I be able to translate this script to Windows...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I enjoyed talking to you yesterday at TechEd. Unfortunately, I did not think about this until I came back to my hotel room and read your "Hey, Scripting Guy!" column. It seems to me that you spent much time saying there was not much of a reason to translate a VBScript into Windows...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I am trying to learn Windows PowerShell. I have a script that creates a Word document that has a series of hyperlinks in it. I want to be able to write that script in Windows PowerShell, but I am not sure where I should begin. As far as I can tell, there are no Windows PowerShell...

We are pretty well annoyed at you guys. We spent all this time and energy creating all these VBScripts over the last nine years. We have several hundred VBScripts that we use in production, and with uncertain economic times, you are now telling me I have to rewrite all these scripts in Windows PowerShell...