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Weekend Scripter: That’s Not Very PowerShell-Like

October 4, 2015 Oct 4, 2015 10/4/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about what is Windows PowerShell-like scripting.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Before Internet streaming, before Nabster, before CD-ROMs, before cassette tapes, and before 8-track tapes, there were things called records. Now it seems that all technology related to music (unless ...

Weekend Scripter: Parsing the DISM Log with PowerShell

September 27, 2015 Sep 27, 2015 09/27/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about parsing the DISM log with Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the things I like to do on weekends is mess around. So I was intrigued when I found a DISM command that would supposedly export file associations (see DISM Default Application Association ...

The Death of PowerShell Scripting

September 24, 2015 Sep 24, 2015 09/24/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about the reduced need to use Windows PowerShell scripting. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you already know that my new book, Windows PowerShell Step by Step, third edition, is on its way to the printers. I am not going to talk about that ...

Extending Objects with PowerShell: Week of the Year

September 23, 2015 Sep 23, 2015 09/23/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Ed Wilson talks about adding members to an object with Windows PowerShell to get the week of the year.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the cool things about Windows PowerShell is that it is configurable. Not merely configurable, but amazingly flexible. For example, when I look at a DateTime object, I see the ...

Break Text File into Chunks with PowerShell

September 22, 2015 Sep 22, 2015 09/22/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about breaking the contents of a text file into chunks with Windows PowerShell. (image)  Hey, Scripting Guy! The other day, you tweeted Get First 140 Characters from String with PowerShell. That is fine, but what about the rest of the text? I mean, if I want to break a text file into ...