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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, continues his five-part series about Windows PowerShell Workflow.  Hey, Scripting Guy! Yesterday you talked about Windows PowerShell Workflow activities. But you only demonstrated the Parallel activity. Is there something you can share with me about some of the other types of activities? In particul...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display date, time, and hour in 24-hour format.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to get the hour of the day in 24-hour format?  Use the Get-Date cmdlet and specify the “%H” pattern to the UFormat parameter (H is case sensitive): get-date -UFormat "%H"

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson continues his five-part series about Windows PowerShell Workflow.  Hey, Scripting Guy! So what’s up with Windows PowerShell workflows and activities? I do not know what an activity is. Can you help me? —CJ  Hello CJ, Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Ah…this afternoo...

Summary: Easily customize the way Windows PowerShell displays a date.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily display the date as day-dash-month-dash-four-digit year?  Use the Get-Date cmdlet,specify a custom format by using the Format parameter, and use dd for the date, M for the month and ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, continues a five-part series about Windows PowerShell Workflow.  Hey, Scripting Guy! So Windows PowerShell Workflow seems pretty cool. But I am wondering if it is possible to use it to easily provide workflow types of things for remote computers? Is this possible? —BB  Hello BB, Micr...