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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.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

Accelerate the PowerShell Console with Custom Drives

January 20, 2011 Jan 20, 2011 01/20/11

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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson teaches how to accelerate work in the Windows PowerShell console with PSDrives. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I noticed in one of your screen shots that you were running the script from a rather deeply nested path of c:\data\ScriptingGuys\2011\HSG-1-3-11. I remember thinking what a ...

Use the PowerShell Add-History Cmdlet to Customize the Console

January 19, 2011 Jan 19, 2011 01/19/11

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Summary: Learn how to use the Windows PowerShell Add-History cmdlet to customize the console for more efficient automation. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I love using the Windows PowerShell history cmdlets to simplify my server and workstation automation needs. It is much easier to Invoke-History than it is to write a script...

Use PowerShell History to Speed Repetitive Commands

January 18, 2011 Jan 18, 2011 01/18/11

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Summary: Learn how to use the Windows PowerShell history cmdlets to speed execution of repetitive commands. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I recently read that Windows PowerShell keeps a history of commands. I am not sure if this is true or not because I cannot seem to figure out how to get to that history. Even if I did get ...

Simplify PowerShell Hash Table Creation with a Simple Cmdlet

January 17, 2011 Jan 17, 2011 01/17/11

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Summary: Learn how to use an easy-to-use Windows PowerShell cmdlet to simplify creating hash tables. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! Good morning, Ed. I have been a Scripting Guy fan for years and although I have not read all the thousands of posts, I have definitely read more than a few of them. This is the first time I have ...

Weekend Scripter: Query the Bing Search Engine from a PowerShell Script

January 16, 2011 Jan 16, 2011 01/16/11

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Summary: Microsoft MVP Sean Kearney shows how to use the Bing web services API from inside a Windows PowerShell script. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Sean Kearney is back with us today as he continues to share with us his discoveries while playing. Read more about Sean in the introduction on this blog post. Let us see ...

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