Showing archive results for June 2014

Summary: Guest blogger, Yung Chou, talks about using Windows PowerShell to develop a minimal footprint with Features on Demand. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I have another guest blog post from my fellow Microsoftee, Yung Chou. Yung is a developer experience evangelist; and therefore, he spends a decent amount of time talking t...

Summary: Learn to use Windows PowerShell to display your Windows path.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to inspect my Windows path to see what folders are there and in what order they appear?  Use the $env PS Drive and retrieve the value of the Path variable. By default, it displays as a continuous string,   &nbs...

Summary: Windows PowerShell principal SDE, Bruce Payette, shares a couple of cool profile functions. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. The week of May 19, we had Profile Week. (To read about some great ideas that you can use for your Windows PowerShell profile, see these Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog posts.) I saved one individual's prof...

Summary:  Learn how to view a directory in a tree view by using Windows PowerShell.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily view a directory list as a tree view?  Use the Show-Tree cmdlet from the PowerShell Community Extension Project: Show-Tree e:\data –depth 2 Note  For information about obtaining and...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, explores XML and XPath. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the things that confused me for a long time about using the Get-WinEvent cmdlet is the difference between the –FilterXPath parameter and the –FilterXml parameters. Part of the problem is that there are nearly no examp...