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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create a Windows Visio Drawing of My Workstations’ Disk Subsystem?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to do a drawing of the disk subsystem on my workstations. We are getting ready to upgrade to Windows 7, and I want to find out which computers have drives that are more than 50 percent full. In addition, I need to know the size of the drives….
Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Use WMI and Windows PowerShell to Make a Microsoft Visio Drawing?
Hey, Scripting Guy! Using Windows PowerShell to control Microsoft Visio looks really cool. However, if I have to manually enter all of the data in the script to produce the drawing, it is probably easier to open Microsoft Visio, drag and drop the shapes from the stencils, and add the connectors. However, I…
Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Make a Microsoft Visio Drawing with Network Shapes and Symbols?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been excited about the Microsoft Visio Week articles since I heard your interview back during the holidays. When I read your tweets as you were the writing the Hey, Scripting Guy! posts, I really got excited. I must say that reading yesterday’s article where you added a square…
Hey, Scripting Guy! Is It Possible to Automate Microsoft Visio?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a question. You guys seem to have a lot of material about automating Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel. You have even written some stuff about automating Microsoft Office Outlook, but I have never seen anything about automating Microsoft Office Visio. I am going to assume that…
Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (1/8/10)
In this post: How Can I Read the Default Value of a Registry Key? How Can I Get Windows PowerShell for Windows 7? Getting the Get-WmiObject Cmdlet to Work What’s the Best Way to Detect Registry Keys Using the WMI Provider? How Can I Read the Default Value of a Registry Key? Hey, Scripting…
Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Add Help Information for Windows PowerShell Parameters?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been reading your articles this week about adding Help to scripts, and it looks really cool, but it also seems to be quite a bit of work. I would love to be able to display Help for a script when the script is run with a specific switch, but then…
Top 20 Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog Posts for 2009
The clicks are in, and here’s how you voted. These were our most clicked blog posts in 2009. 1. Can I Download Multiple Files at Once with Internet Explorer in Windows 7? 2. How Can I Simply Have Windows PowerShell Display Information on the Screen? 3. How Can I Back Up Specific Folders on My…
Hey, Scripting Guy! What Should I Include in Windows PowerShell Script Help?
Hey, Scripting Guy! I heard your interview the other day on the PowerScripting podcast, and I was really impressed. It is not every day I get to hear one of my heroes be interviewed on a podcast. I wanted to submit a question, but I got too carried away with the flow of things,…
Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Add Multiline Comments to My Windows PowerShell Scripts?
Hey Scripting Guy! I have been trying to add more comments to my Windows PowerShell scripts, but one thing that I really miss is a multiple-line comment character that I had in other programming languages. Not having a multiple-line comment was annoying in VBScript, but it is unacceptable for Windows PowerShell to not have…