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Announcing the 2015 Honorary Scripting Guys

Summary: The Honorary Scripting Guys for 2015 are announced in this blog post. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I have been pretty busy—I missed work because of my ear surgery and the holidays, so I have enlisted the help of the Scripting Wife, Teresa Wilson, to write this post to announce the 2015 Honorary Scripting Guys. I ...

PowerTip: Find running services with PowerShell

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find running services. (image)  How can I use Windows PowerShell to quickly produce a sortable list of running services on my computer? (image)  Use the Get-Service cmdlet to return the services, and the Out-GridView to produce a sortable list: gsv | ogv Note   gsv is an alias for Get-Service, and...