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Use PowerShell to Convert Date Formats Easily

August 24, 2011 Aug 24, 2011 08/24/11
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson discusses four different techniques for using Windows PowerShell to convert date formats.   (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem. Although I am sure you hear this a lot, this problem is causing me a major problem at work. Here is the deal. We are a large company and we have operations ...

Use PowerShell to Get the Number of the Week of the Year

July 8, 2011 Jul 8, 2011 07/8/11
ScriptingGuy1
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to easily get the number of the week of the year. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It seems that at times things appear to be too hard. At other times, things that I figure might be too hard, end up being super simple. I guess this is why I was never that good at project estimation tasks...

Scripting Wife Uses PowerShell to Get Days Until NCAA Final Four

March 19, 2011 Mar 19, 2011 03/19/11
ScriptingGuy1
Summary: The Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to determine the number of days until the NCAA championship game. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. It has been an extremely exciting week. I finished writing all of the Windows PowerShell 2011 Scripting Games events, and I emailed them to the guest commentators. In ...

Weekend Scripter: Tea Time!

October 2, 2010 Oct 2, 2010 10/2/10
ScriptingGuy1
  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It has been a great week with some excellent guest bloggers. It is not that I took the week off; rather, I have spent the week working on some special projects I wanted to complete. The great thing about working with guest bloggers is that I get to tap into world-class writers who are experts in ...

Manipulating Dates Returned by Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

August 5, 2010 Aug 5, 2010 08/5/10
ScriptingGuy1
  (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to understand how to work with dates that I receive from Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). I remember in VBScript I had to use a function I got from the Scripting Guys that did string manipulation to convert the WMI date to a “normal” date. I guess that is okay, but I had no idea ...