Summary: Learn how to prompt for input for your Windows PowerShell script. How can I use Windows PowerShell as an easy way to prompt a user for information for my script? Use Read-Host, for example: $a = Read-Host -Prompt "enter your input" The users input is stored in the $a variable. Note Depending ...
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video that explores filtering event log entries with Windows PowerShell.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about using a filter hash table to filter events from the event log.Note For more information about this technique, see Filtering Even...
Summary: Learn how to easily record commands and output from commands in Windows PowerShell. How can I create a text file all commands and output from the commands that I use in Windows PowerShell? Use the Start-Transcript cmdlet. To stop the transcript, use Stop-Transcript. Note In Windows PowerShell&nb...
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video about parsing Windows event log messages.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about using a cmdlet to parse event log messages. Note For more information about this technique, see Easy Parsing of Messages with PowerShe...
Summary: Measure how long it takes for a Windows PowerShell command to complete. If I change one command to try to improve the speed of my Windows PowerShell script , how can I see if that command is faster than the one I changed? Use the Measure-Command cmdlet. For example, to s...
