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Hey, Scripting Guy! We have Windows Update configured on all our workstations at work. Automatically, the workstations check for new updates, and download and install the updates that are required. This happens without user intervention, or from intervention on the part of our small and overworked IT department. Here is the problem. The pointy-he...

I want to tell you that I love your articles. I have learned more about tea in the last three months than I ever thought was possible. In fact, if truth be told, I never thought about tea that much. I do like the can of tea from the vending machine, if that counts. Sometimes I drink that instead of soda pop, when I want to get the healthy antioxi...

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? Most of these scripts use WMI, which, if ...

I was looking through some of the scripts in the Script Repository that use WMI, and they seem to make sense. In fact, they seem annoyingly repetitive. That is not my question. My question is how in the heck do you know which WMI class to use, or which properties are available in the WMI classes. I mean, that is the killer problem, now isn't it. I...

I have been looking at Windows PowerShell, and think it would be cool to use. We use WMI a lot at work, and I am wondering if I can gather the same kinds of information using Windows PowerShell that we use VBScript for? Is Windows PowerShell designed to do this?- DB Hi DB, It is rather early in the morning down here in the southern part of the U...