The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

New PowerShell content is being posted to the PowerShell Community blog where members of the community can create posts by submitting content in the GitHub repository.

Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

Weekend Scripter: Automatically Collecting Process Snapshots

August 8, 2010 Aug 8, 2010 08/8/10

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Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It may seem like a “well duh” thing for a Scripting Guy to say, but I love writing scripts. In particular, I love writing Windows PowerShell scripts. One problem with sharing everything I write is that people always have a better idea about how to do things. But better can be relative...

Weekend Scripter: Boot Tracing with Windows PowerShell

August 7, 2010 Aug 7, 2010 08/7/10

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Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. There used to be a really cool tool available in the Windows Driver Development Kit (DDK) that was called bootvis.exe. I used to use it to create a boot trace for my Windows XP computer. This tool was useful because it would let you know which drivers were taking a long time to load. Unfortunately, there...

Manipulating Dates Returned by Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

August 5, 2010 Aug 5, 2010 08/5/10

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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to understand how to work with dates that I receive from Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). I remember in VBScript I had to use a function I got from the Scripting Guys that did string manipulation to convert the WMI date to a “normal” date. I guess that is okay, but I had no idea ...

Manipulating Date Ranges with Windows PowerShell

August 4, 2010 Aug 4, 2010 08/4/10

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to add and subtract dates so that I can use the results in custom queries for various Windows event logs using Windows PowerShell. Is doing this type of date manipulation easy or hard to do with Windows PowerShell? If it is not too difficult to do, could you whip up some examples of ...

How to Express Dates in Different Fashions with Windows PowerShell

August 3, 2010 Aug 3, 2010 08/3/10

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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to use Windows PowerShell to be able to parse dates. We have dates that are displayed in different ways. Some are day/month/year, others are month/day/year, and still others are year/month/day. I need to be able to express these different date configurations with a minimal amount of monkeying around...

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