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Summary: Guest blogger, Alan Byrne, talks about using Windows PowerShell to create Office 365 reports. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I would like to welcome guest blogger Alan Byrne. Alan is the cofounder of Cogmotive Reports, an Office 365 Reporting and Analytics web application that offers a range of automated Office 365 rep...

Summary: Use a cmdlet from the PSCX module to get your system uptime.  How can I easily find my system uptime if I have the Windows PowerShell community extensions (PSCX) installed?  Use the Get-Uptime cmdlet from the PSCX module: Get-Uptime Note  For more information about the Windows PowerShell Community Extension pr...

Summary: Microsoft senior technical evangelist talks about getting started with virtual machine’s in the cloud by using Microsoft Azure and Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have as a guest blogger, Keith Mayer. Keith Mayer is a senior technical evangelist at Microsoft. He focuses on the Windows infras...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to add disks to a live virtual machine on Hyper-V.  How can I easily add disk drives to my virtual machine while it is live?  Use the Add-VMScsiController and Add-VMHardDiskDrive cmdlets. First, stop the virtual machine, add the SCSI controller, then start the virtual machine: STOP-VM "My Virtual Machine" A...

Summary: Microsoft PowerShell MVP and honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, continues his series about using Windows PowerShell to create a virtual machine. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. If you are a seasoned Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog reader, you know that the most frequent guest blogger is Sean Kearney. If you are new to the blo...