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Summary: Guest blogger, Keith Mayer, talks about using Windows PowerShell to manage cloud-based backups. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back Keith Mayer as our guest blogger today. This is Part 1 of a two-part series. In Part 2, we’ll restore virtual machines in Windows Azure from these backups. Keith Mayer is a senior ...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find aliases that rename commands.  How can I find Windows PowerShell aliases that rename commands?  Use the Get-Alias cmdlet, pipe the results to Where-Object, and look for a hyphen in the name: Get-Alias | Where name -Match '-' | select name, definition

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shares an excerpt from his book, Windows PowerShell Best Practices that discusses scripting pitfalls. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I have an excerpt from my new book, PowerShell Best Practices, which is published by Microsoft Press. In the excerpt today, I talk about avoiding Window...

Summary: Find all two letter aliases.  How can I see all defined two-letter Windows PowerShell aliases?  Use the Get-Alias cmdlet and a wildcard character combination: Get-Alias ??

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about finding all two-letter alias combinations by using Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I have an excerpt from my new book, PowerShell Best Practices, which is published by Microsoft Press. The two-letter alias namespace is rather large, but how large is it ...