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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.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: Get the public IP of an Azure VM with PowerShell

July 1, 2016 Jul 1, 2016 07/1/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use the Azure Resource Manager cmdlets to get the public IP address of an Azure virtual machine. (image) How can I get the public IP address information for an Azure Resource Manager virtual machine (VM)? (image) All you need to do is use Get-AzureRmVm to find the VM and pass it to Get-AzureRmPublicIPAddress as in the following ...

How to alter the public IP address of an Azure virtual machine

July 1, 2016 Jul 1, 2016 07/1/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Change the public IP address in Azure Resource Manager by using Windows PowerShell. Honorary Scripting Guy, Will Anderson, shares a personal challenge that he encountered when working with Azure and public IP addresses. He also shares the solution with the rest of us! Take it away, Will! Recently, I incorrectly configured an Azure ...

PowerTip: Get a GUI interface for any PowerShell cmdlet

June 30, 2016 Jun 30, 2016 06/30/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use the Show-Command to build PowerShell cmdlets. (image) I ran into a problem. Some cmdlets have too many parameters to list. Is there an easy way to build a cmdlet with its parameters for the console? (image) You’ll love this trick! Just use the Show-Command cmdlet with any PowerShell cmdlet to get a GUI interface. In the ...

Find ready-to-use sample PowerShell scripts in the GUI

June 30, 2016 Jun 30, 2016 06/30/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, goes over some often missed, easy-to-use PowerShell techniques for those who are starting out. (image) I had heard a rumor that many of the management tools actually run PowerShell code in the backend. Is there any way to see what code it’s running? (image) Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean ...

PowerTip: List all available CIM classes by using PowerShell

June 29, 2016 Jun 29, 2016 06/29/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use the Get-CimClass cmdlet to see all classes that you can query from. (image) How can I find a list of Common Information Model (CIM) classes in Windows so that I can ask my computer useful questions? (image) Just run the Get-CIMClass cmdlet to get a list of all available classes in the default namespace in Windows. If you’d ...

Scripting Blog [archived]

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