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Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: The Scripting Wife Redirects Output and Creates a Text File

April 11, 2010 Apr 11, 2010 04/11/10
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(image)  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I love it when it rains. It sings of cleansing, freshness, new birth, and endless possibilities. Especially when it is a gentle spring rain like we are enjoying right now. It reminds me of when the Scripting Wife and I first went to Maui, Hawaii. We were staying near the beach, and every ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: The Scripting Wife, Shakespeare, and StartTime Property

April 4, 2010 Apr 4, 2010 04/4/10
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(image)  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. In some respects—nay, in many respects—the weekend should not be called weekend, but rather weekbeginning. With no meetings, no presentations, no e-mail, and no phone interruptions, the weekend offers endless possibilities, unmitigated avenues for exploration, and boundless ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: The Scripting Wife Learns How to Start and Stop Processes

April 3, 2010 Apr 3, 2010 04/3/10
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(image)  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. The Bradford pear trees are in bloom in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States. The small, delicate, white blossoms that grace the twisted shrub-like trees drape like pearls around the neck of a stately dowager. For a short two-week period, the Deep South is clothed in color, ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: The Scripting Wife Eases Into Windows PowerShell Cmdlets

March 28, 2010 Mar 28, 2010 03/28/10
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(image)  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Yesterday, the Scripting Wife installed Windows Power Shell 2.0 on her Windows XP Service Pack 3 computer. She used Microsoft Update to add the .NET Framework before completing the installation of Windows PowerShell 2.0. After updating the system, installation of Windows PowerShell took ...