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May 16, 2015May 16, 201505/16/15Summary: Windows PowerShell MVP, Mike F Robbins, walks through a setup to manage an Amazon Web Services environment with Windows PowerShell.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back Mike F Robbins to talk about Windows PowerShell for Amazon Web Services.
October 9, 2013Oct 9, 201310/9/13Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to easily create virtual switches in Hyper-V.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. The Scripting Wife and I are really looking forward to going to Atlanta to Windows PowerShell Saturday 005. It will be held at the Microsoft Office in Alpharetta,
July 24, 2009Jul 24, 200907/24/09
Troubleshooting a VBScript Script That Reports All Software Installed on a Computer
Hey Scripting Guy! I am pretty new to use VBScript and seem to have hit a wall. I put together the script below to output a file containing all the software installed on a machine.
July 17, 2009Jul 17, 200907/17/09
How Can I Query a Registry Value Remotely?
I have a simple question: What is the equivalent to querying the MicrosoftIE_Summary WMI class in Windows Vista? I just need to get the version of Internet Explorer. One small problem though: The Windows PowerShell script is being run remotely from Windows Server 2003.
March 21, 2009Mar 21, 200903/21/09Troubleshooting an Active Directory HTA
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have created an HTML Application (HTA) to prompt a support person for their administrative ID and password and a computer name that they wish to delete from Active Directory. The script uses the alternate credentials to find the computer object alright,
January 24, 2009Jan 24, 200901/24/09How Can I Return File Names of Files Created in Less Than an Hour from the Current Time?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I am attempting to write a script that looks at the creation dates of all files in a certain directory.
January 10, 2005Jan 10, 200501/10/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine which version of Word is installed on a computer?— RR
Hey, RR. Turns out that this is a trickier question than you might expect. That’s because WMI does only a so-so job of retrieving information about the software installed on a computer.
