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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to set the time stamps on Microsoft Word document files. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is Saturday here in Charlotte, and the sunshine continues to make its presence known. It seems that the sun gets up rather early during the summer, and retires in ...

Summary: Learn about important Windows PowerShell cmdlets and how to find them. Question: What are the three MOST important cmdlets? Answer: The three most cmdlets are: Get-Command, Get-Help and Get-Member. Question: Which cmdlet can I use to work with event logs? Answer: To work with event logs, use the Get-EventLog cmdlet, or the Get-...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to automatically complete the Microsoft Word built-in properties. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Registration for the Charlotte PowerShell Saturday event to be held on September 15, 2012 is underway. (Incidentally, that is the day after my birthday. The ...

Summary: Learn the difference between a read-only variable and a constant.Question: What is the difference between a read-only variable and a constant?Answer: A read-only variable is one with content that is read-only. It can, however, be modified by using the Set-Variable cmdlet with the –force parameter. It can also be ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find specific built-in properties from Word documents.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Well the script for today took a bit of work … actually it took quite a bit of work. The script does the following: Today’s script is similar to...