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Summary: Learn about using scheduled tasks and scheduled jobs in Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today Dave Bishop, senior technical writer on the Windows Server team, and June Blender, senior programming writer on the Windows Azure Active Directory team, investigate scheduled tasks and scheduled jobs in Windows Pow...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to export cmdlet information to a text format other than .csv.  How can I export Windows PowerShell cmdlet information to a format other than .csv so I can use it in another application?  Use the Export-CSV cmdlet and specify a different deliminiter. For example, if your application needs &nb...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to rename files in bulk. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Matt Tisdale is back today with another solution to a situation at work… I received a call from a gentleman named Cristofer this afternoon. He had a business need and he heard from someone that Windows PowerShell could help. I t...

Summary: Save Windows PowerShell cmdlet information as a .csv file.  How can I save information from a Windows PowerShell cmdlet as a .csv file so I can open it in Excel for processing? Pipe the Windows PowerShell cmdlet information to the Export-CSV cmdlet, specify the path to store the file,           and use the &nd...

Summary: Guest blogger, Matt Tisdale, talks about using Windows PowerShell to remove data from a .csv file. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger, Matt Tisdale… Last night a geoscientist told me that he has almost 900 .csv files, and he needs to remove two columns of data from them. He has used Windows Power...