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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.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

PowerShell PowerTip: ISE crashing and auto complete not working

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18

Kory Thacher

Hi all, I'm going to start putting out these short PowerShell PowerTips every so often. They won't be full blog posts, but they will be short and useful! Have you been having issues with the ISE crashing and not auto completing since windows update 1803? From what I've seen there is a fix for this coming, but if you need these features ...

Run PowerShell code in Puppet

May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018 05/23/18

Doctor Scripto

Normally, it’s preferable to use specific Puppet and DSC Windows modules to manage systems in Puppet, but an alternative is running PowerShell commands and scripts by using the exec resource. This can be helpful for transitioning existing PowerShell code into Puppet quickly.

Doing more with functions: Verbose logging, Risk mitigation, and Parameter Sets

May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 05/15/18

Kory Thacher

Welcome back to PowerShell for Programmers, this week I'm trying gitGist again for the code blocks. Let me know what you think about it vs the normal syntax highlighter I use :) As we've seen in the other posts about functions, attributes are a really cool thing to extend the features we have available to ourselves and for our users. This ...

PowerTip: Get all your local certificates by using PowerShell

May 9, 2018 May 9, 2018 05/9/18

Doctor Scripto

How can I use Windows PowerShell to enumerate all certificates on my Windows computer?

Get certificate info into a CSV by using PowerShell

May 9, 2018 May 9, 2018 05/9/18

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Certificate management is always challenging. Let’s explore how to use PowerShell to export local certificate information to a comma-separated values (CSV) file on Windows 7 (or later) computers. Q: Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get all my certificate info into a CSV on my Windows computers? —SH A: Hello SH, Patrick Mercier ...