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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shares an excerpt from his book, Windows PowerShell Best Practices that discusses scripting pitfalls.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I have an excerpt from my new book, PowerShell Best Practices, which is published by Microsoft Press. In the excerpt today, I talk about avoiding ...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about finding all two-letter alias combinations by using Windows PowerShell.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I have an excerpt from my new book, PowerShell Best Practices, which is published by Microsoft Press.
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The two-letter alias namespace is rather large, but how...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, provides an excerpt from his new book, Windows PowerShell Best Practices, about searching for strings.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I have an excerpt from my new book, PowerShell Best Practices , which is published by Microsoft Press.
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When you are searching for a...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the user who owns a process.
(image) How can I use Windows PowerShell 4.0 in Windows 8.1 to determine who owns a process?
(image) Use the –IncludeUserName switch with the Get-Process cmdlet:
Get-Process -IncludeUserName
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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to determine the stability of your system.
(image) How can I use Windows PowerShell 4.0 on my laptop running Windows 7 to find out how stable my system is?
(image) Use the Get-CimInstance cmdlet to query the Win32_ReliabilityStabilityMetrics, and pipe &...