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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.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.
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to remove personal and other information from Microsoft Excel workbooks in this Scripting Guys article.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! At times, I really hate where I work. It seems everyone is always scared. They are scared to say what they really think in meetings, they are scared to make ...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guys show you how to use Windows PowerShell to save a Microsoft Excel workbook as a PDF file.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! There are some things I really enjoy about working for a small company. I am the only IT person, and as a result I get a chance to do everything. I work with the Exchange Server. I ...
Summary: Learn how to create a customizable profile for the Windows PowerShell ISE. The Microsoft Scripting Guys walk you through the steps.
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is a quiet Sunday morning here in Charlotte, North Carolina. The female humanoid that shares my domicile has departed. She used her last remaining ...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson provides step-by-step instructions for adding custom menu items to the Windows PowerShell ISE.
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. A long long long long time ago in a far far far far away land, I used to write code in a language called WordBasic. Using Word Basic I could completely automate...
Summary: The Microsoft Scripting Guys show how to determine service launch order by using Windows PowerShell and WMI in this helpful step-by-step article.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find out the order in which services start on my computer. To properly shut down a computer, the services should stop in reverse order that ...