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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows how to use Windows PowerShell and WMI to translate a SID to a user name, or a user name to a SID.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I do a lot of work with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), and quite often I need to find the security identifier (SID) of a user. I know that I can find the SID...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows how to use Windows PowerShell to compare snapshots of running processes in this step-by-step article.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. The road seems to stretch on indefinitely. Parallel lines of concrete, surrounded by tall dancing pine trees and bordered by freshly mown grass, cont...

  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I don’t know about you, but I have thousands of music files on my computer. In fact, I have exactly 4,018 music files. I used this Windows PowerShell command to count them: PS E:\Music> (dir -Include *.mp3,*.wma -Recurse | Measure-Object).count 4018 ...

Summary: The Microsoft Scripting Guys show how to use Windows PowerShell to identify applications that cause Internet Explorer to crash.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I am the network administrator where I work. I do mean the network administrator. I do everything from server configuration and installation, to user help desktop support. Our netw...

Summary: The Microsoft Scripting Guys describe how to reuse Windows PowerShell code to simplify script writing and retrieve reliability information.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I really enjoy reading your stuff. It is generally both fun and informative. The thing I appreciate the most is that your writing does not read like standard product documen...