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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.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

Hey, Scripting Guy! update

July 26, 2017 Jul 26, 2017 07/26/17

Doctor Scripto

Ed Wilson retired, but we are continuing his legacy of friendly tutorials on solving common problems. We will also help IT professionals expand their skill set beyond what might be their comfort zone. Examples of this include incorporating continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools into core infrastructure management, and ...

Cloud operating system deployment: WinPE in Azure

February 9, 2017 Feb 9, 2017 02/9/17

Doctor Scripto

Jason Ryberg is a Consultant for Microsoft, where he writes PowerShell code and provides DevOps support. Have you ever wanted to boot to WinPE in Azure and select an Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Task Sequence? As part of an informal cloud-readiness evaluation, I was asked to deploy a server image to Azure. The image that I was given ...

Announcing the 2016 Honorary Scripting Guys

February 7, 2017 Feb 7, 2017 02/7/17

Doctor Scripto

Summary: The Honorary Scripting Guys for 2016 are announced. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Well, it has been an awesome year for Windows PowerShell and for the community. The Scripting Wife and I had the opportunity to speak at lots of user groups and conferences last year. This involved many, many miles of travel. Luckily, the...

Part 3 – Use Azure Automation DSC to Configure Linux and execute PowerShell scripts

November 9, 2016 Nov 9, 2016 11/9/16

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Summary: Learn how to configure and use PowerShell, Bash, and DSC with Linux. Hi, my name is Stefan Roth (Blog: http://stefanroth.net / Twitter: @stefanroth_net), and I am a Cloud and Datacenter MVP. In my last post of this three-part series, I would like to show you how we are able to hook up the previously installed Linux system to Azure ...

Speed up remote PowerShell connection to Exchange

October 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016 10/17/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Speed up the connection to Exchange by importing only the cmdlets that you need. (image) Is there a way to speed up the initial PowerShell connection to Exchange? (image) Yes, of course! With a little modification to Import-PSSession, we can speed up the connection. Normally, you would connect to Exchange 2010/2013/2016 like this...

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