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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

New PowerShell content is being posted to the PowerShell Community blog where members of the community can create posts by submitting content in the GitHub repository.

Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

Use PowerShell and a Filter Hash Table to Speed Boot Trace

July 15, 2013 Jul 15, 2013 07/15/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using a filter hash table with Windows PowerShell to speed up boot trace parsing. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I don’t get it. You wrote a script yesterday, and said that the performance was bad. You suggested that you could improve the performance, but then you did not do ...

Optimize Performance of AD DS Queries via PowerShell

July 5, 2013 Jul 5, 2013 07/5/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Guest blogger, Matt Tisdale, talks about using the Measure-Command cmdlet to optimize an AD DS query. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I love to attend events where I can meet new people and get reacquainted with those I have previously met. I especially love meeting people and hearing how they use Windows PowerShell...

Performance Counters and Windows System Assessment Report

April 6, 2013 Apr 6, 2013 04/6/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Microsoft PowerShell MVP, Richard Siddaway, talks about using Windows PowerShell and WMI to work with performance counters and Windows assessment. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This week we will not have our usual PowerTip. Instead we have excerpts from seven books from Manning Press. In addition, each blog will have a ...

Weekend Scripter: Measure the Performance of Using Wildcards in a WMI Query

July 21, 2012 Jul 21, 2012 07/21/12

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Learn how to use the Windows PowerShell Measure-Command cmdlet to determine the performance of wildcard queries using WMI. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is the weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, and tomorrow I fly to Seattle, Washington where I speak at the Microsoft-only TechReady 15 conference. It is a ...

Using Performance Counters with the Out-GridView Cmdlet

May 4, 2012 May 4, 2012 05/4/12

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson demonstrates how to use the Out-GridView cmdlet with performance counter information. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a question, and hopefully you will not think it is a stupid one. During the 2012 Scripting Games, one of the events had to do with using performance counters. I thought that ...

Scripting Blog [archived]

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