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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.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.

Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

Reuse PowerShell Code to Simplify Script Creation

October 7, 2010 Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10

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Summary: The Microsoft Scripting Guys describe how to reuse Windows PowerShell code to simplify script writing and retrieve reliability information. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I really enjoy reading your stuff. It is generally both fun and informative. The thing I appreciate the most is that your writing does not read like standard ...

Use PowerShell to Check for WMI Dependencies on Windows 7

October 6, 2010 Oct 6, 2010 10/6/10

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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to check for WMI dependencies on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I am very excited about using the WMI reliability classes for monitoring purposes. As you mentioned in your previous articles, it is not automatically enabled on Windows Server 2008 R2. This means ...

Use PowerShell to Graph the Reliability of Windows 2008 R2

October 5, 2010 Oct 5, 2010 10/5/10

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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson shows you how to use Group Policy to enable reliability tracing via Windows PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! First of all, let me say that yesterday’s article was interesting. We are also looking at attempting to determine server reliability, and I think that ...

Using Windows PowerShell to Determine Service Launch Order

September 2, 2010 Sep 2, 2010 09/2/10

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Summary: The Microsoft Scripting Guys show how to determine service launch order by using Windows PowerShell and WMI in this helpful step-by-step article. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find out the order in which services start on my computer. To properly shut down a computer, the services should stop in reverse order that ...

Get Windows Power Plan Settings on Your Computer by Using PowerShell

August 31, 2010 Aug 31, 2010 08/31/10

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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to retrieve the power plan settings for your computer. The Microsoft Scripting Guys show you how. (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to have a way to easily retrieve the power plan settings for the active power plan on my computer. I would like to have an easy to read display of the setting name, ...

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