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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create Virtual Machines?

(image)  About the author: Susan Hill writes content for Virtual Machine Manager. While her early influences include Kernighan and Ritchie, more recently she has broadened her skills under the Windows PowerShell movement. She aspires to be the Gauguin of Windows PowerShell, and in preparation for this, she spends her spare time travelling...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use VMM Cmdlets to Move Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Hosts?

(image) About the author: Susan Hill writes content for Virtual Machine Manager. While her early influences include Kernighan and Ritchie, more recently she has broadened her skills under the Windows PowerShell movement. She aspires to be the Gauguin of Windows PowerShell, and in preparation for this, she spends her spare time travelling to ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Virtual Machine Manager Cmdlets and Windows PowerShell

(image)  About the author: Susan Hill writes content for Virtual Machine Manager. While her early influences include Kernighan and Ritchie, more recently she has broadened her skills under the Windows PowerShell movement. She aspires to be the Gauguin of Windows PowerShell, and in preparation for this, she spends her spare time travelling...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: The Scripting Wife Eases Into Windows PowerShell Cmdlets

(image)  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Yesterday, the Scripting Wife installed Windows Power Shell 2.0 on her Windows XP Service Pack 3 computer. She used Microsoft Update to add the .NET Framework before completing the installation of Windows PowerShell 2.0. After updating the system, installation of Windows PowerShell took ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Interacting with the Windows PowerShell Console Window

(image) About the author: Tibor Soós is a Windows PowerShell MVP who lives in Hungary.   I started to learn programming in 1982 at the age of 12. My father bought a little Z80 based computer, named Mickey '80, which was produced by a computer manufacturing plant of an agricultural collective farm. Strange things happened ...