The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Create New GUID

September 10, 2015 Sep 10, 2015 09/10/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a new GUID. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily generate a new GUID for a project.? (image) Use the New-Guid cmdlet. If you need to create more than one, you can use code such as the following (% is an alias for Foreach-Object): 1..4 | % {new-guid...

Use Inheritance in PowerShell 5 Classes

September 10, 2015 Sep 10, 2015 09/10/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using inheritance with Windows PowerShell 5.0 classes in Windows 10. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I want to talk about class inheritance with Windows PowerShell 5.0 in Windows 10. In Introduction to PowerShell 5 Classes, I talked about class design and I mentioned ...

PowerTip: Find Class Constructors in PowerShell 5

September 9, 2015 Sep 9, 2015 09/9/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn how to easily find class constructors. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell 5.0 to find the constructor overloads for a new class I want to create? (image) Place the class in square brackets, and call the static New method with no parentheses, for example: [datetime]::new (image...

PowerShell 5 Classes: Constructor Overloading

September 9, 2015 Sep 9, 2015 09/9/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using the new Windows PowerShell 5.0 class feature in Windows 10 and doing constructor overloading. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I want to talk about overloaded constructors. I know, I know, I know… It sounds like some sort of engineering failure. But that is ...

PowerTip: Quickly Fix a Volume with PowerShell

September 8, 2015 Sep 8, 2015 09/8/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to perform a quick fix on a volume. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to perform a quick fix on a volume that is somewhat suspect? (image) Use the Repair-Volume cmdlet and specify the drive letter and the SpotFix parameter, for example: Repair-Volume -DriveLetter E -SpotFix...

Scripting Blog [archived]

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