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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about accessing objects inside other objects in the Windows PowerShell pipeline.  Hey, Scripting Guy! Yesterday in Create Custom PowerShell Objects, you talked about writing a script to access embedded objects. That seems like a lot of trouble. Is there a better or easier way to do that, for e...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about creating custom objects via Windows PowerShell.  Hey, Scripting Guy! Yesterday in Understand Embedded Objects in PowerShell, you said the easy way to expand a Windows PowerShell object was to use the –ExpandProperty parameter from the Select-Object cmdlet. That works OK, but I cann...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about understanding embedded objects in Windows PowerShell.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I don’t get it. Some things in Windows PowerShell are so easy, and others are so complicated. It seems to go from ridiculously easy to ridiculously hard all at once. Take for instance, the Get-Process cmdlet...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find hotfixes that were installed during a certain time range.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem at work. It seems there was a hotfix that was installed in the last couple of months that is causing problems with the video driver on a certain model of compu...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to explore Help topics. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. With the drops of the Windows Management Framework 5.0 (also known as Windows PowerShell 5.0), now is a good time to begin exploring modules, new cmdlets, and so on. It is way cool that Win...