Showing archive results for 2011

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson talks about Windows PowerShell user groups and his recent visit to one in Texas.   Hey, Scripting Guy! A week or so ago, I remember reading that you spoke to the Corpus Christi PowerShell User Group in Texas. You did not do much of a follow-up about that. In addition, you never explained what a Window...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to easily find information about Windows Update hotfixes.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem, and I am hoping that you can help me. I have been using the Get-Hotfix cmdlet, but unfortunately, it seems to miss some system updates. I desperately need to perform an audit of our systems, but when I ...

Summary: Guest Blogger Ingo Karstein shares a Windows PowerShell function to track and remove variables from your environment.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today, we have a guest blog article written by Ingo Karstein. He has a really clever way to clean up your Windows PowerShell environment. I will let Ingo tell you a bit about h...

Summary: Guest Blogger Oliver Lipkau shares two Windows PowerShell functions to simplify reading and writing to INI files.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today, we have another guest blog post, this one written by Oliver Lipkau. Oliver has written a guest blog post before, and he was a judge for the 2011 Scripting Games. In addition to...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to analyze email headers and obtain detailed origination information.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Guest Blogger Thiyagu continues with part 2 of his post about analyzing email headers with Windows PowerShell. See yesterdays’ post for information about Thiyagu and for the first pa...