Summary: Two new features in VMware's PowerCL make it easy for Windows PowerShell to gather virtualization configuration information. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have a guest blog written by Josh Atwell. . Take it away Josh… Hi.  I'm Josh Atwell and I'm a SystemsAdministrator focused on scripting and automatio...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to inventory objects in your SharePoint environment and to script updates. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Raymond Mitchell is our guest blogger today. Here is a little bit about Raymond. Raymond has worked in IT since 1999, and he has worked with every version of SharePoint since its relea...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to get software installation locations, and to uninstall software from remote computers. Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a dumb application that we have to use at work. The company has released a new version of this application, and I am trying to write a Windows PowerShell script to uninstall the old applic...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to search Active Directory for GIDs. Today we have as our guest blogger, Chris Wu. Chris Wu’s career at Microsoft started in 2002, first as a support engineer in Microsoft Global Technical Support Center in China to support various components of the base operating system. Now he is a premier field ...

Summary: Guest blogger, Karl Mitschke, discusses a Windows PowerShell script to start non-running services that are set to start automatically. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Our guest blogger today is Karl Mitschke, one of the authors of the Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible. Here is a little bit about Karl. Karl Mitschke is an IT veteran...