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

October 25, 2015 Oct 25, 2015 10/25/15
Doctor Scripto
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

October 24, 2015 Oct 24, 2015 10/24/15
Doctor Scripto
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...

Dude It’s a String—The Video

October 18, 2015 Oct 18, 2015 10/18/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video to talk about working with strings in Windows PowerShell.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about working with strings—in particular empty or null strings. I talk about the differences between empty, null, and white space in ...

Use PowerShell to Parse Network Trace Logs—The Video

October 17, 2015 Oct 17, 2015 10/17/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video to show how to use Windows PowerShell to parse network trace logs. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I am presenting a video where I show how to use Windows PowerShell to parse network traces. The steps I show are common commands that will normally be run to set up...

Playing with JSON and PowerShell—The Video

October 11, 2015 Oct 11, 2015 10/11/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video where he describes converting JSON data with Windows PowerShell.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about using the ConvertFrom-JSON cmdlet to parse information returned via Invoke-WebRequest. I am using Windows PowerShell 5.0 on Windows...