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Summary: Learn how to automatically save commands from one session, and then use them in a new Windows PowerShell session. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the fun things about getting to travel around and talk to people who are using Windows PowerShell on a daily basis to automate their systems is the quality of the questions I ...

Summary: Learn how a simple change to a preference variable can help prevent accidental changes when using Windows PowerShell.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. When I was teaching my Windows PowerShell Best Practices class out in Irvine, California, recently, I was talking to the class about the whatif parameter. I did my usual introd...

Summary: Learn how to create a powerful Windows PowerShell ISE profile by running a single script.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. One of the problems with writing a daily blog is that after a while, you end with a huge collection of articles and scripts. When I got a new laptop, and immediately left the country, I was really h...

Summary: The Scripting Wife adds a function to her Windows PowerShell profile to update the Sysinternals tools on her computer.   Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I had completed my IT Time radio interview with Blain Barton for my series on Windows PowerShell best practices, when I heard the commotion from downstairs. I quickly donned m...

Summary: The Scripting Wife learns how to add a cool function to her Windows PowerShell profile.   The story you are about to read is true. We did not bother to change the names to protect the innocent. However, we did alter some of the facts.   The hot weather had finally broken, and fluffy white cotton ball clouds crowded the fall sky l...