(Note: Today’s Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog post is an edited excerpt from a forthcoming SAPIEN Press book authored by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks. Don has published more than 30 books about IT pro topics; you can also find him in TechNet Magazine, on ScriptingAnswers.com, and on concentratedtech.com. Jeffery has authored or co-authored several books…
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Hey, Scripting Guy! A Scripting Overview of Windows PowerShell 2.0 (Part 1)
(Note: Today’s Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog post is an edited excerpt from a forthcoming SAPIEN Press book authored by Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks. Don has published more than 30 books about IT pro topics; you can also find him in TechNet Magazine, on ScriptingAnswers.com, and on concentratedtech.com. Jeffery has authored or co-authored several books…
Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Format with Windows PowerShell? (Part 2)
(Note: Today’s article is written by guest scripter, Thomas Lee. Here is Thomas’ scripting autobiography from The Official Scripting Guys Forum! where he is a moderator: I’ve been scripting pretty much forever. I used to be pretty hot at JCL on the IBM 360 in the late 1960s, did a ton of shell scripting in the…
Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Format with Windows PowerShell? (Part 1)
(Note: Today’s article is written by guest scripter, Thomas Lee. Here is Thomas’ scripting autobiography from The Official Scripting Guys Forum! where he is a moderator: I’ve been scripting pretty much forever. I used to be pretty hot at JCL on the IBM 360 in the late 1960s, did a ton of shell scripting in the…
Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Conversion Module, Part 2
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. One of the cool things about writing scripts on the weekend, is the lack of distraction. Because there are few things to compete for one’s attention, there is more time to polish and more time to clean up the code. For example, consider the ConversionModule.psm1 module I worked…
Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Conversion Module, Part 1
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Well, this is truly a historic day for a number of reasons. The first reason is that this is the first Saturday column in Scripting Guy history! The second historic occasion is that we finally got snow in Charlotte, North Carolina. This second reason is not really historical—we…
Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (2/5/10)
In this post: How Can I Run My First VBScript Script? Can I Use VBScript on Windows 7? Troubleshooting a VBScript Script How Can I Run My First VBScript Script? Hey, Scripting Guy! I have followed the instructions from the VBScript first steps guide to the letter at least 20 times, but it still does…
Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Query Active Directory for Users Whose Passwords Don’t Expire?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I am interested in using Windows PowerShell to query Active Directory. We have deployed Windows Server 2008 R2 on our domain, and upgraded one of our domain controllers. I would like to be able to query for a list of all users whose passwords do not expire. When I did…
Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Search Active Directory?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I often need to search Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to find information about various computers. I may need to identify all of the computers in a particular organizational unit or all the computers who happen to reside in a particular office. Whatever the reason, using Active X Data…
Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (1/29/10)
In this post: How Can I Run This Windows PowerShell Command on a Remote Computer? Troubleshooting a Windows PowerShell Script for Active Directory Can I Detect the Title of the Command Prompt Window? How Can I Add Quotation Marks Around a String Variable? How Can I Run This Windows PowerShell Command on a Remote…