Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to manage scheduled tasks for your SharePoint Server. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the really cool things about being the Microsoft Scripting Guy is getting to meet lots of smart people who love Windows PowerShell as much as I do. I feel as if Jonathan Tyler is one of my oldest fri...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows how to use Windows PowerShell and scheduled tasks to automate troubleshooting your computer. Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a website that is currently hosted on a rather unreliable server. I am tired of constantly being harassed by management that the server is inaccessible. Unfortunately, we ...
Summary: Learn how to use the Windows Task Scheduler to run Windows PowerShell scripts that require input values. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a Windows PowerShell script that collects information from a computer and writes the results to a text file. I would like to be able to schedule the running of this Windows PowerShell script. The...
  Summary: Learn how to use the Windows Task Scheduler to run Windows PowerShell commands automatically.  Hey, Scripting Guy! One of the things that is a bit frustrating about reading the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog is that it seems as if you expect network administrators to sit in front of their computer screens manually launching scripts and re...
Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to run a script when my computer is idle. But only when it is idle. I have looked in WMI and everywhere else and cannot find anything that will detect when the computer is idle. Can you tell me how to do it?- NM Hi NM, You know, our computers are busy plotting against us every minute of the day. Of this we a...
