The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

PowerTip: Connect to PSSession if Availability is “None”

October 5, 2013 Oct 5, 2013 10/5/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn how to connect to a PSSession if its Availability is None.(image) Can I connect to a PSSession if its Availability is None?(image) None means that no other session is connected to the PSSession, so if the State is Disconnected and the Availability is ...

Disconnected Sessions: Phenotype and Genotype (Part 1)

October 5, 2013 Oct 5, 2013 10/5/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn about a revolutionary feature in Windows PowerShell 3.0 that lets you disconnect from and reconnect to PSSessions. Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson here. We have an exciting guest blog series that is written by Paul Higinbotham, a software design engineer for Windows PowerShell and June Blender, a senior programming writer for ...

PowerTip: Find Only PowerShell Cmdlets that Use “Get”

October 4, 2013 Oct 4, 2013 10/4/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Find only Windows PowerShell cmdlets that use the verb “get.” (image) How can I find cmdlets in Windows PowerShell that use the verb “get” when the parameters –Verb and –CommandType are exclusive? (image) Use Get-Command to find the –CommandType&...

CSV: Add a Carriage Return for PowerShell Import

October 4, 2013 Oct 4, 2013 10/4/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Guest blogger, Tim Bolton, talks about modifying a .csv file to promote cleaner import. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have the first of two posts by guest blogger, Tim Bolton. This one feeds into his post that will be published on Monday, but the idea is a standalone. Take it away, Tim… When I set up new...

PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Video-Related WMI Classes

October 3, 2013 Oct 3, 2013 10/3/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find WMI classes that are related to a video subsystem. (image) How can I find all WMI classes in the root\cimv2 WMI namespace that are related to video or displays? (image) Create an array of wildcard patterns, then pipe the results to the Foreach-Object cmdlet, &...

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