Summary: Learn how to check for proper completion of a Windows PowerShell command. How can I tell if a Windows PowerShell command completes successfully? a. Query the $error automatic variable. If $error[0] reports no in...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use Windows PowerShell to automate formatting and copying data to USB drives. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we leave the mystery writers conference in Nashville, Tennessee and head to northern Kentucky. I will be teaching a Windows PowerShell workshop to a group of Micro...
Summary: Learn to use the Write-Host PowerShell cmdlet to create color output from commands. Someone told me the Write-Host cmdlet could create color output. Can you give me some samples of acceptable syntax? a. Write-Host -ForegroundColor 12 "hi" b. Write-Host -ForegroundColor 12 "hi" -BackgroundColor white c. Write-Host...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using the Windows PowerShell BITS module to download large files. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the cool things about my job—OK, so there are many cool things about my job—but one of the things that I just geek out on, is access to the daily builds of Windows...
Summary: Learn how to create an ASCII file from inside Windows PowerShell. I want to create an ASCII text file to hold the results of the Get-Process cmdlet. How can this be done? a. Pipe the results to the Out-File cmdlet and use the -encoding parameter to ...
