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May 2010 - Scripting Blog

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Using the Windows Search Index to Find Specific Files

May 30, 2010 May 30, 2010 05/30/10
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  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. One of the cool things about using Windows PowerShell is the different objects with which you can interact. Windows Search is an example of this. By using ADO, you can query the Windows Search index and retrieve information about files. This technique can have some very interesting possibilities...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Querying the Windows Search Index

May 29, 2010 May 29, 2010 05/29/10
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  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I finally had time to play around with querying Windows Search from within Windows PowerShell. I tried, back during the beta of Windows Vista, to do that, but I was unable to get it to work. It has been on my mind and on the back burner for quite some time. Today, being a nice relaxed day—...

What's Up with the New Blog?

May 24, 2010 May 24, 2010 05/24/10
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  So you noticed, eh? The new blog was launched just today! For the first week or so, things might seem...different. Why is there all this extra space in and between paragraphs? Why doesn't it look exactly the same? Who let the dogs out? It's going to take some getting used to, sort of like when you move into a new house or adjust to a ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Using the Get-ACL Cmdlet to Show Inherited Permissions on Registry Keys

May 23, 2010 May 23, 2010 05/23/10
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  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I was sitting in the kitchen waiting for my pot of English Breakfast tea to steep when my mind began to wander back over the week that was nearly completed. One of these days I will write a script to count the number of words in all the documents in a folder. That suggestion is actually up on the...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Using Windows PowerShell to Compress Folders

May 22, 2010 May 22, 2010 05/22/10
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  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is another beautiful weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina. I enjoy getting up early on the weekend, having a leisurely breakfast, reading for a little while, and then heading up to my office to write some scripts. I have a white board upon which I write down ideas for scripts that I wish to ...