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Summary: Learn how to use a free Windows PowerShell module to audit and install patches on Windows systems.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today, I am proud to present a guest blog post written by Boe Prox. Boe has written a really cool module to audit and install software patches on Windows systems. Boe is currently a senior system...

Summary: Guest Blogger Robert Robelo shows how to use Windows PowerShell to work with images in Microsoft Excel.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Our guest blogger today is Robert Robelo. First, I want to give Robert a chance to tell us a little bit about himself. I live in Nicaragua. I have been an incomplete quadriplegic (paralyzed ...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to configure a remote computer's network adapter to wake the computer.   Hey, Scripting Guy! At work, we have been trying to get our automation solution put into place. One problem is that on many of the computers, the network adapter is not configured to allow it to wake up the machine. This means ...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell and WMI to terminate multiple processes.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I am wondering about how to use WMI to work with multiple instances of a class. For example, if I have 50 processes running, and I want to kill all of them at the same time, I can easily do this using the Get-Process and Stop-Process cmd...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to convert security descriptors to different formats.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I was reading through a listing of WMI methods recently, and I ran across a WMI class that looks interesting—Win32_SecurityDescriptorHelper. I think it will help me, because it seems like every security utility wants a...