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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell and WMI to obtain basic operating system information.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to check on computers on my network to find out the operating system, service pack level, and whether the computer has been rebooted in the last 30 days. Can you help with this? &md...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to detect drive types.  Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a number of workstations in our network. Many of the users bring USB keys from home to transfer their files. Others have large external USB drives attached to their machines, and others have portable CD/DVD devi...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find startup information.  Hey, Scripting Guy! It seems that my laptop running Windows 8.1 takes forever to start lately. I don’t really even know where to begin with this. I haven’t added anything that I know of, but still it is dog slow. I d...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find the version of his Windows operating system. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is not a secret that I love Windows PowerShell. It is not a secret that I also love Windows 8.1 especially on my Surface Pro 2. Disclaimer: I bought my Surfa...

Summary: Microsoft PFE, Heath Lawson, talks about using Windows PowerShell and WMI to create collection query rules. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Heath Lawson is back with us today for Part 3 in his series. You can catch up by reading Part 1 and Part 2: Howdy y’all! Heath here. This is the last in a series of three posts a...