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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.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: Display Every PowerShell Example in Help

October 12, 2015 Oct 12, 2015 10/12/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Display every Windows PowerShell example that Help contains. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to display every Help example that Windows PowerShell contains? (image) Use Get-Command to retrieve all of the cmdlet names, pipe the output to Foreach-Object, and ...

Packet Sniffing with PowerShell: Getting Started

October 12, 2015 Oct 12, 2015 10/12/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about getting started with packet sniffing in Windows PowerShell.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the way cool things that happened with Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 was the ability to do network traces with Windows PowerShell. I have found network ...

PowerTip: Find Windows Capabilities with PowerShell

October 11, 2015 Oct 11, 2015 10/11/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Find Windows capabilities with Windows PowerShell on Windows 10. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell 5.0 on Windows 10 to determine capabilities such as handwriting, optical character recognition (OCR), speech, and text-to-speech on my installation? (image) Use the ...

Playing with JSON and PowerShell—The Video

October 11, 2015 Oct 11, 2015 10/11/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video where he describes converting JSON data with Windows PowerShell.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about using the ConvertFrom-JSON cmdlet to parse information returned via Invoke-WebRequest. I am using Windows PowerShell 5.0 on Windows...

PowerTip: Find Latest Events in Windows Event Log

October 10, 2015 Oct 10, 2015 10/10/15

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn how to quickly find the latest events in a Windows event log. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell to look in the Application log to see the latest events? (image) Use the Get-Eventlog cmdlet, specify the log name, and select newest events, for example: Get-EventLog application -Newest 5 (image...

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