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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Test the Efficacy of My Script Modifications?

July 23, 2009 Jul 23, 2009 07/23/09

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 Hey Scripting Guy! I have a script that I wrote, and I am interested in modifying it to try and make it run faster. I know I can use the Measure-Object Windows PowerShell cmdlet, but I want to run the script several times and get the average time it takes for each script to run. This task sounds like it might be a bit more complicated ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Speed Up My Windows PowerShell Scripts?

July 22, 2009 Jul 22, 2009 07/22/09

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 Hey Scripting Guy! I am not sure why you are so excited about Windows PowerShell. It is much slower than VBScript. I am not talking about a little slow; I am talking about orders of magnitude slower. Sure it has some nice cmdlets, but the performance is sucking fumes. -- LMHello LM, It is no secret that Windows PowerShell 1.0 was a bit...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Test a Bunch of Scripts and Generate a Report?

July 21, 2009 Jul 21, 2009 07/21/09

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 Hey Scripting Guy! At our company, we have a lot of Windows PowerShell scripts we use to gather information from various client computers distributed throughout the network. All of these scripts are in a single folder. Recently, several users have been reporting that these scripts are causing them problems, and they have been complaining...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Test a Script I Have Written?

July 20, 2009 Jul 20, 2009 07/20/09

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