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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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

PSScriptAnalyzer deep dive – Part 2 of 4

February 1, 2017 Feb 1, 2017 02/1/17

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, shows how to suppress, include, and exclude PSScriptAnalyzer rules. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a Cloud and Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for The Scripting Guy this week. You can find me on Twitter (@MrThomasRayner), or posting on my blog, workingsysadmin...

PowerTip: Find all the Azure Automation jobs that will run in the next two days

January 31, 2017 Jan 31, 2017 01/31/17

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to find all the Azure Automation jobs that will run in the next two days. (image) Is there a way to find all the Azure Automation jobs that will run in the next two days? (image) Use the cmdlet, and check out the attribute. Here is an example: (image...

PSScriptAnalyzer deep dive – Part 1 of 4

January 31, 2017 Jan 31, 2017 01/31/17

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics about how to use PSScriptAnalyzer. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a Cloud and Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for The Scripting Guy this week. You can find me on Twitter (@MrThomasRayner), or posting on my blog, workingsysadmin.com. This week...

PowerTip: Know the difference between the .split() method and ‘-split’

October 28, 2016 Oct 28, 2016 10/28/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to split a string by using a string instead of just a character. (image) I am trying to split the string “this is my amazing string” on the pattern “my” by using “this is my amazing string”.split(“my”) but it’s giving me a bunch of garbled stuff back. ...

PowerShell regex crash course – Part 5 of 5

October 28, 2016 Oct 28, 2016 10/28/16

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, shows the basics of working with regular expressions in PowerShell. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud and Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for The Scripting Guy! this week. You can find me on Twitter (@MrThomasRayner), or posting on my blog, ...

Scripting Blog [archived]

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