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April 30, 2009Apr 30, 200904/30/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I am trying to get ready for the Summer Scripting Games. I understand they are coming up fairly soon. So I am thinking I want to compete in the beginner division this year for Windows PowerShell. I am trying to get my head around looping.
April 29, 2009Apr 29, 200904/29/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I frequently work with arrays in my scripts. The way I write scripts, I end up using Do…While…Loop frequently. I know that you like using the For…Each…Next for arrays, but to me Do…While…Loop seemed easier and more flexible.
April 28, 2009Apr 28, 200904/28/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been using VBScript for a long time. One of my favorite language statements in VBScript is the While…Wend loop. It is easy to use and easy to understand. Is there an equivalent command in Windows PowerShell?–
April 27, 2009Apr 27, 200904/27/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I appreciate the command-line stuff you are showing, but to be honest, I am not interested in returning to the DOS days to administer my network. I am not a UNIX administrator-I am a Windows guy. If I wanted to do UNIX kinds of things,
April 25, 2009Apr 25, 200904/25/09In This Post
How Can I Script the Download of Large Binary Files?
How Do I Take Ownership of a File?
How Do I Get the Time on a Computer?
How Do I Increment a Number and Retain Its Format?
How Can I Get a List of Mapped Drives from a Remote Machine?
April 23, 2009Apr 23, 200904/23/09Hey, Scripting Guy! This may not sound too exciting, but I do a lot of work with files and folders. I constantly have to create folders and files, move files, and move folders. This was easy to do by using VBScript,
April 22, 2009Apr 22, 200904/22/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I want to do a query for a process, and if the process is running, I want to delete that process. I know I could write a script by using WMI, but is there something native to Windows PowerShell that I can use to find and to delete the process?
April 21, 2009Apr 21, 200904/21/09Hey, Scripting Guy! I have seen you refer to this term pipeline many times since you started writing Windows PowerShell articles. What is up with that? Why don’t you just store things in a variable and then walk through the contents of the variable when you are working with Windows PowerShell?
April 20, 2009Apr 20, 200904/20/09Hey, Scripting Guy! Your Windows PowerShell articles have been real interesting, and I have been fascinated by the things you can do. But I need you to start at the beginning. It all looks real confusing to me. How about it?
April 18, 2009Apr 18, 200904/18/09Troubleshooting a VBScript
Hey, Scripting Guy! Maybe you can help me out. I have been using a script to schedule tasks to execute VBScripts on remote machines within my domain at work. I usually use this to send messages to specific users or to start a chain-updating event for my machines.
