The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

All good things must come to an end

February 16, 2021 Feb 16, 2021 02/16/21

Doctor Scripto

Introduction of New PowerShell Community Blog and Retirement of "Hey Scripting Guy!" Blog, the passing of the Torch to a new Generation.

Testing RPC ports with PowerShell (and yes, it’s as much fun as it sounds!) New and Improved!!

January 31, 2021 Jan 31, 2021 01/31/21

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Using PowerShell to identify RPC ports in use by capturing content from PowerShell We'd like to introduce you today to one of our newest bloggers! It's a froopingly awesome friend of ours, Joel Vickery, PFE. (did I mention Dr. Scripto is a big fan of books written by Douglas Adams?....oops!) Take it away Joel! Thanks Doc! So ...

Import Azure DevOps Test Plans from One Environment to Another

September 9, 2020 Sep 9, 2020 09/9/20

Claudia Ferguson

Summary Standardization of Azure DevOps Test Plans and Reusing Them Between Different Organizations Today we introduce Claudia Ferguson and Mike Stiers to the Scripting Blog. Claudia is a Senior Consultant with the Microsoft Active Directory Migration Services Engineer team, and Mike Stiers is a Microsoft Consultant from Toronto Canada. His...

Just go with the flow…. WorkFlow that is with Windows PowerShell

December 18, 2019 Dec 18, 2019 12/18/19

Doctor Scripto

Doctor Scripto returns again with our good friend Joel Vickery, PFE who is going to touch on the use of Workflows In PowerShell. Take it away Joel! Following up on my original post Parallel Processing with jobs in PowerShell, I wanted to go into another method of running parallel processes in PowerShell, namely WorkFlows. WorkFlow is ...

PowerTip: Identify Completed PowerShell Jobs with Data yet to be Received

December 11, 2019 Dec 11, 2019 12/11/19

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Doctor Scripto quickly shows how to identify Completed Jobs in PowerShell which have yet to have the data Received Hey Doctor Scripto, How can I identify jobs which already completed but I haven’t done a Receive-Job on to get the data? (image) You can do this with the Get-Job Cmdlet by targeting the -ChildJobState and -...