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Summary: Guest Blogger Boe Prox shares lessons learned while writing the Windows PowerShell PoshPAIG module.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today, we have part two of Boe Prox’s article about his module to audit and update Windows systems. See yesterday's blog post for information about Boe as well as for a detailed article ab...

Summary: Learn how to use a free Windows PowerShell module to audit and install patches on Windows systems.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today, I am proud to present a guest blog post written by Boe Prox. Boe has written a really cool module to audit and install software patches on Windows systems. Boe is currently a senior system...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to configure a remote computer's network adapter to wake the computer.   Hey, Scripting Guy! At work, we have been trying to get our automation solution put into place. One problem is that on many of the computers, the network adapter is not configured to allow it to wake up the machine. This means ...

Summary: Learn how to create and parse performance monitor logs by using Windows PowerShell.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I am wondering if I can use Windows PowerShell to create a performance counter log that I can use in Perfmon?   —CS   Hello CS, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. After I finished giving my two talks on Window...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson teaches how to use performance counter sets with Windows PowerShell to simplify profiling a system.   Hey, Scripting Guy! I am wondering if there is an easier way to work with performance counters? For example, rather than having to pick out a whole bunch of counters, are there groups of counters that...