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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.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 find WMI classes that allow you to change property values.
(image) Hey Scripting Guy! I recently saw a Windows PowerShell script that looked like it actually changed the value of a property. I know that Windows PowerShell methods require you to put things in parentheses, and this script ...
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find WMI classes that contain usable methods for making configuration changes in Windows.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I that know you spend a lot of time working with WMI. The one thing that I really do not like about WMI is that although it seems like there is a lot of information that ...
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to filter remote event log entries in a Windows Vista computer.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I thought your article yesterday was really great. It was interesting how a rather simple change could provide such a big gain in performance. The problem is that it does not appear to work on my ...
Summary: Learn how to improve the performance of a Windows PowerShell event log query.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I am a beginner when it comes to using Windows PowerShell, and I was inspired by your article yesterday about using Windows PowerShell to Query All Event Logs for Recent Events, and today I attempted to write a command to get all...
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to easily query all event logs for recent events.
It is raining outside in Seattle, Washington. I suppose that might not be news to most people, but then I am not from Seattle. In fact, the last time I was out here to teach a Windows PowerShell class to a group of Microsoft network engineers, it was...