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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

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

PowerShell PowerTip: What is the point of Out-Variable?

July 24, 2018 Jul 24, 2018 07/24/18

Kory Thacher

A lot of times people see others using the common parameter -OutVariable instead of the best practice $var = <value>. This leads to a lot of folks wondering why OutVariable exists. The real use for OutVariable is to save your data off, while still letting it get sent along the output stream. What this means is that you could use it...

PowerTip: Turn off the power to your computer with PowerShell

July 16, 2018 Jul 16, 2018 07/16/18

Doctor Scripto

I’ve got a script that needs to power off a system after it’s done. How can I accomplish this with PowerShell?

PowerShell PowerTip: What you should know about streams

July 10, 2018 Jul 10, 2018 07/10/18

Kory Thacher

PowerShell has a concept called Streams, which are the different places data can go (output, error, verbose, etc). You usually don't have to worry too much about these streams if you're just writing simple scripts, but it helps a ton to know: What this means for you, as users, is that you can get a non-terminating error, and ...

PowerTip: Determine your version of PowerShell and host operating system

June 29, 2018 Jun 29, 2018 06/29/18

Doctor Scripto

Identify your PowerShell environment by making use of built-in PowerShell variables.

PowerShell PowerTip: Checking your PowerShell version

June 26, 2018 Jun 26, 2018 06/26/18

Kory Thacher

If there is one question I could say I get the most in PowerShell, it is: How do I check my version? Its not a hard thing, but its not an obvious thing. We can actually check our version with a build in variable called PSVersionTable Hope that helps, tune in more often to get short and sweet PowerTips...

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