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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to automatically enable and disable trace logs.   Hey, Scripting Guy! Your articles have been right on target—they hit me where I live. I am wondering if I could actually automate some of this? Suppose I am trying to install software using WMI, and I would like to see the log entries you talked about the o...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to troubleshoot software installation.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I am having a problem troubleshooting the installation of an MSI package. I am using Group Policy to deploy the MSI package, and on some computers, it seems to work, but on other computers it fails. After having read your most recent series of articles...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to parse Windows trace logs.   Hey, Scripting Guy! Is it possible to filter the results from an ETW log? —DK   Hello DK, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Sure there is. In Saturday’s Weekend Scripter article, I talked about working with Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) logs. I...

Summary: Learn how to use date types to filter event trace logs in Windows PowerShell.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I am wondering, oh great scripting master: can I use Windows PowerShell to parse an ETW log file? —JM   Hello JM, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is “oh dark thirty” in the Piedmont region of the United...

Summary: Use ShowUi, a free Windows PowerShell module, to simplify creating graphical interfaces for scripts.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today, I have a guest article from my good friend James Brundage. Here is a little bit about him.   James Brundage is the founder of Start-Automating, a company dedicated to saving people ...