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Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to discover what files are using up all the disk space on your computer. Weekend Scripter Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. I do not know about you, but it seems as if there is a disk space-eating gremlin on my computer. One day I have several hundred gigabytes of free disk space on my computer,...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell regular expressions to parse an RSS feed. Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find patterns in text with regular expressions when I am unsure of where line breaks will occur in the text I am reading? —TT Hello TT, Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson here. Today Tome Tanasovski is back to finish out Gue...

Summary: Microsoft MVP, Tome Tanasovski, shows how to use regular expression lookaheads and lookbehinds in Windows PowerShell to format numbers.   Hey, Scripting Guy! How do I use a regular expression to add the appropriate commas to a number? —TT Hello TT, Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Guest Blogger Week continues with To...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to evaluate email messages that are sent and received on Microsoft Exchange Server. Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to create a report that tells my boss information about email messages that are sent and received by our Exchange Server. Can I use Windows PowerShell to do this? —CR Hello CR...

Summary: Microsoft MVP, Shay Levy, shows how to use Windows PowerShell proxy functions to extend the capability of Windows PowerShell cmdlets. Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to modify the behavior of existing Windows PowerShell cmdlets. Is this something that can be accomplished by using “normal” tools, or do I need to reverse enginee...