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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

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

PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find IP Config of Adapter

June 16, 2013 Jun 16, 2013 06/16/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 in Windows 8 to find the IP configuration of a specifically named IP adapter. (image) How can I use Windows PowerShell 3.0 in Windows 8 to easily find the IP address configuration of a network adapter named External Ethernet Apapter? (image) Use a wildcard character with ...

Weekend Scripter: Use PowerShell to Manage Auto-Connect Wireless Networks

June 16, 2013 Jun 16, 2013 06/16/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to manage auto-connect wireless networks in Windows 8. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I am going to continue my blog about working with auto-connect wireless networks in Windows 8. In yesterday’s blog post, Weekend Scripter: Use PowerShell to Find Auto-Connect Wireless Networks, I ...

PowerTip: Find Information about Network Adapters with PowerShell

June 15, 2013 Jun 15, 2013 06/15/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell in Windows 8 to find information about network adapters. (image) In Windows 8, how can I find information about network adapters? (image) Use the Get-NetAdapter function: Get-NetAdapter (image...

Weekend Scripter: Use PowerShell to Find Auto-Connect Wireless Networks

June 15, 2013 Jun 15, 2013 06/15/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to identify auto-connect wireless networks in Windows 8. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the cool things about traveling around is that I am constantly confronted with new challenges. Invariably these new challenges tend to cause me to use Windows PowerShell. For example, at TechEd 2013 North...

PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Add Drive to Virtual Machine

June 14, 2013 Jun 14, 2013 06/14/13

Doctor Scripto

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to add a new hard disk drive to a virtual machine on Hyper-V. (image) How can I to add another hard drive to my virtual machine? (image) Use the Add-VMHardDiskDrive cmdlet with the following command: STOP-VM -vmname "My Virtual Machine" NEW-VHD -Dynamic C:\VHD\MyDrive.vhdx -SizeBytes 60GB ...

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