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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.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

Copy multi-valued Active Directory attributes from one user to another with PowerShell

October 23, 2019 Oct 23, 2019 10/23/19

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Using -Replace parameter with Set-ADUser to copy Active Directory multi-valued attributes Q: Hey, Doctor Scripto! We are in the middle of an Active Directory migration and need to copy the multi-valued attribute “ProxyAddresses” from old user accounts to new ones. Can you do with a few lines of code? —ND A: Hello ND...

PowerTip: Use New-Alias to make Cmdlets easier to remember

October 16, 2019 Oct 16, 2019 10/16/19

Doctor Scripto

Using New-Alias to create easier to remember shortcuts in PowerShell

Using PowerShell to View and Remove Wireless Profiles in Windows 10 – Part 4

October 16, 2019 Oct 16, 2019 10/16/19

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Using Windows PowerShell to purge Wlan profiles with NetSh.exe. Last week we had a way with a Regular Expression to run one Netsh.exe command and show only the profile names as a PowerShell Array. Today we're going to finish the task and show you how to delete those Profiles. As a quick reminder here's the line in PowerShell ...

PowerTip: Show all Installed Capabilities on Windows 10

October 9, 2019 Oct 9, 2019 10/9/19

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Identify if capabilities like OpenSSH are installed in your Windows 10 Operating System (image) Hey, Doctor Scripto. I was curious if there was a way to see if a workstation has a capability installed on it like OpenSSH. I’m trying to report on this for my environment. (image) Absolutely! You can run the following line...

Using PowerShell to View and Remove Wireless Profiles in Windows 10 – Part 3

October 9, 2019 Oct 9, 2019 10/9/19

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Using Regular Expressions to cleanup string data from NetSh.exe. Let's remember the last two discussions. The first time we looked at using PowerShell to identify wireless profiles with some simple regular expressions. We followed up the next week with how to identify which approach would be the fastest. Today we're going to ...