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Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video where he talks about class inheritance and property overrides in Windows PowerShell 5.0.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. The air show in Tampa was awesome. Today the Scripting Wife and I decided to head to the Magic Kingdom at Disney World. It is a lot of fun, and beside...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a new partition on a disk.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a new partition on a disk?  Use the New-Partition cmdlet, specify the disk number, and assign a new drive letter and size, for example: New-Partiton -DiskNumber 2 -UseMaximumSize -AssignDriveLetter

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, introduces a video about overloaded class constructors in Windows PowerShell 5.0 in Windows 10.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This is my birthday weekend, so today the Scripting Wife decided to take me to Tampa for the air show. As it turns out, my buddy and Microsoft evangelist, Blain...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to clone a virtual disk.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to clone a virtual disk?  Use the New-VirtualDiskClone cmdlet, for example: New-VirtualDiskClone –virtualDiskFriendlyName “mydata” –TargetVirtualDiskName “ClonedData” –TargetStoragePoo...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about overriding inheritance in Windows PowerShell 5.0 classes. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the things that is pretty cool about Windows PowerShell 5.0 classes, is that I can override the things I inherit from a base class. This offers a lot of flexibility because it means t...