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Summary: Windows PowerShell superhero BATCHman writes a script to automate the Sysinternals Handle tool. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today, we continue the BATCHman series as the titular hero battles Tapeworm.     When the digital crash In a blink and a splash A gleam in the night To make all wrongs right Our heroes fly out An...

Summary: Windows PowerShell superhero BATCHman uses regular expressions to parse output from handle.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today we have Episode 10 of the BATCHman series.   Whenever trouble happens in systems and people will call, and darkness rolls out causing your fall, Creatures of bits roam in the night, Shine to ...

Summary: The Scripting Wife adds a function to her Windows PowerShell profile to update the Sysinternals tools on her computer.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I had completed my IT Time radio interview with Blain Barton for my series on Windows PowerShell best practices, when I heard the commotion from downstairs. I quickly donned m...

Summary: The Scripting Wife learns how to add a cool function to her Windows PowerShell profile.   The story you are about to read is true. We did not bother to change the names to protect the innocent. However, we did alter some of the facts.   The hot weather had finally broken, and fluffy white cotton ball clouds crowded the fall sky l...

Summary: The Scripting Wife learns how to create a Windows PowerShell ISE profile.   Note   This is part two in a series of articles in which The Scripting Wife learns how to work with Windows PowerShell profiles. In yesterday’s article, she created a profile for the Windows PowerShell console. That article also covers the basi...