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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.
New PowerShell content is being posted to the PowerShell Community blog where members of the community can create posts by submitting content in the GitHub repository.
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about parsing output from NetStat with Windows PowerShell 5.0.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need a good way to parse output from the NetStat command. I use it all the time, but it ends up requiring me to spend a lot of time looking through stuff. I am not sure if the command itself has ...
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using a new Windows PowerShell cmdlet to create objects from strings.
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! It seems that even though Windows PowerShell 5.0 in Windows 10 has a lot of cool new stuff, I still end up using command-line utilities. I don’t know if it is just me, or if ...
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using the new Convert-String cmdlet in Windows PowerShell 5.0 to manipulate strings.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Over the weekend, the Scripting Wife and I headed out and about to explore central Florida. We found a really cool lake town that had an awesome tea shop. We ...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to read a CSV file and create users in Active Directory.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Yesterday in Oh No! Oh Wait...PowerShell for the Win!, I created a CSV file from a Word document that I had been given. Today, I take the next logical step and ...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to clean up an impossible document.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Sometimes I just cringe. It is a reflex reaction born from many long (and at times, torturous) years in the IT field. I know, I should be able to get over it, and sometimes I ...