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Weekend Scripter: Test Performance of Event Log Queries—The Video

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about comparing the performance of various Windows PowerShell event log queries.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about examining the performance of various queries from the event log.Note  For more information about this technique, see ...

Filtering Event Log Entries with PowerShell—The Video

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video that explores filtering event log entries with Windows PowerShell.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about using a filter hash table to filter events from the event log.Note  For more information about this technique, see Filtering...

Weekend Scripter: PowerShell 5 Class Inheritance and Overrides—The Video

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video where he talks about class inheritance and property overrides in Windows PowerShell 5.0.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. The air show in Tampa was awesome. Today the Scripting Wife and I decided to head to the Magic Kingdom at Disney World. It is a lot of fun, and ...

Weekend Scripter: Overloaded Class Constructors in PowerShell 5—The Video

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, introduces a video about overloaded class constructors in Windows PowerShell 5.0 in Windows 10.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This is my birthday weekend, so today the Scripting Wife decided to take me to Tampa for the air show. As it turns out, my buddy and Microsoft evangelist, ...

Weekend Scripter: Create Objects from Strings—The Video

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about using Windows PowerShell 5.0 to create objects from strings in this video.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the great things about Windows PowerShell is that it is object-oriented. This means that I can easily pipe objects, sort objects, and compare objects.In ...