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January 2015 - Scripting Blog

PowerShell Spotlight: Three Upcoming Spotlight Events

January 31, 2015 Jan 31, 2015 01/31/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Windows PowerShell MVP, Teresa Wilson, spotlights three Windows PowerShell events.  Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I was talking with Teresa (The Scripting Wife) about some ideas she had for sharing information with IT professionals. We came up with the idea for her to write a blog post once a month called ...
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Rounding Numbers—PowerShell Style

January 30, 2015 Jan 30, 2015 01/30/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to round numbers.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I think your series about formatting numbers has been pretty interesting. However, everything you have shown has a major problem—and that is that you convert numbers into strings. I would love to be able to ...

PowerTip: Express Percentage in PowerShell

January 29, 2015 Jan 29, 2015 01/29/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Learn an easy method to express a percentage in Windows PowerShell.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to express a two-decimal place percentage? For example, I have multiple            calculations in a Windows PowerShell script, and I am tired of always dividing two numbers, multiplying    ...