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(Note: Today's Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog post is an edited excerpt from a forthcoming SAPIEN Press book authored by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks. Don has published more than 30 books about IT pro topics; you can also find him in TechNet Magazine, on ScriptingAnswers.com, and on concentratedtech.com. Jeffery has authored or co-authored several books...

(Note: Today's article is written by guest scripter, Thomas Lee. Here is Thomas' scripting autobiography from The Official Scripting Guys Forum! where he is a moderator: I've been scripting pretty much forever. I used to be pretty hot at JCL on the IBM 360 in the late 1960s, did a ton of shell scripting in the 70s on ICL VME. I learned batch ...

(Note: Today's article is written by guest scripter, Thomas Lee. Here is Thomas' scripting autobiography from The Official Scripting Guys Forum! where he is a moderator: I've been scripting pretty much forever. I used to be pretty hot at JCL on the IBM 360 in the late 1960s, did a ton of shell scripting in the 70s on ICL VME. I learned batch ...

 Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. One of the cool things about writing scripts on the weekend, is the lack of distraction. Because there are few things to compete for one’s attention, there is more time to polish and more time to clean up the code. For example, consider the ConversionModule.psm1 module I worked on yesterday. After...

 Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Well, this is truly a historic day for a number of reasons. The first reason is that this is the first Saturday column in Scripting Guy history! The second historic occasion is that we finally got snow in Charlotte, North Carolina. This second reason is not really historical—we get snow in Charlot...